cogitation
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Psychologists know that people are credulous about the cognitive abilities of those who matter to them, overinterpreting simple responses as signs of cogitation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025
But it’s mostly a simulacrum of human thought, not the product of cogitation.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2023
At one extreme, there are those for whom a lifetime of rumination and cogitation offers an unparalleled sense of meaning.
From Salon • May 30, 2021
But even that scene moves; there isn’t a moment when Smallwood feels bogged down, by grad-school cogitation or anything else.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2021
“Well,” said Joe, with the same appearance of profound cogitation, “he is not—no, not to deceive you, he is not—my nevvy.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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