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contemplate

[kon-tuhm-pleyt, -tem-] / ˈkɒn təmˌpleɪt, -tɛm- /




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“I’m looking at these numbers and could not even contemplate signing on the bottom line,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

But some things stay the same and, as they contemplate entering a third decade in power, it is SNP politicians and their supporters who are celebrating this weekend.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

Morbid though it is to contemplate, those kinds of numbers probably make more congressional deaths in the near future inevitable.

From Slate • Apr. 24, 2026

The Oakland Raiders had a throwaway 12th-round pick in the 1977 draft, and then-coach John Madden grew frustrated hearing his personnel executives contemplate using it on a basketball player or track guy.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026

Of course she’d suspected what was coming, but that made it no easier to contemplate.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray




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