contemplate
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Losing Brown and Cummings was grim enough but the fear of losing Steyn as well was too much to contemplate.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
When Iglesias asked Koy if they should contemplate performing “across the street” together, the crowd erupted with excitement.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026
When I contemplate it, I think about the mothers at my son’s preschool, people I work with, wealthier friends, and wonder if they would find requests for money to be cringe.
From Slate • Feb. 19, 2026
He speculated that scholars and Americans in general were too disheartened by Vietnam to want to contemplate a traumatic rupture like the Civil War.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
“Man might be a transmuted ape”—an idea so deeply repulsive that Owen could not even bear to contemplate it.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing contemplate
Of Mice and Men
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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