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For the owners to even contemplate repeating that experience, especially given the heightened competition in the modern world for sports fans’ attention and viewers’ eyeballs, can bespeak only insanity or stupidity, or probably both.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

The father of a seventh-grader living with cancer recently raised the issue of “whether researchers in a trial could be motivated by prediction market profits,” something so heinous it is difficult to contemplate.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

Millions of Europeans will contemplate the sky in awe on Wednesday as a rare total solar eclipse crosses part of the continent and plunges a swathe of Spain into eerie daytime darkness.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

But no one at the club will want to contemplate such a thought.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Finally I decided to do something most college athletes can never contemplate: leaving campus to study abroad.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

As the seventh generation of his family to fish for eels on Lough Neagh, he gets emotional when he contemplates the future.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Meanwhile, Sam Adams contemplates the film’s ending, arguing that Nolan’s final plot twist changes the meaning of the whole story.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

The resolution asks teachers to “encourage the use of paper and pen assignments” and also contemplates banning student access to YouTube as well as the gaming platforms Roblox and “Fortnite.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

The president is known to monitor the stock market and the state of the economy regularly while he contemplates policy decisions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

I am the cat who contemplates both the mouse and the cheese.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

“The arrest contemplated by Mayor Mamdani would face significant legal challenges,” said Ginsberg, who previously worked in the New York state attorney general’s office.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

The couple anxiously contemplated the request before agreeing to lend Barnes £10,000, after he promised it would be repaid within a week.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

Nike last week said its results would get a lift from tariff refunds that were “not contemplated in the company’s previously provided guidance.”

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

I never thought about it before, never contemplated it, never even thought of those words together before in my life, and they just came out to me that day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

He climbed with the confidence and speed of what he was: a person who has never once in his life contemplated the idea of falling.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

"I don't think the Fifa should be ever contemplating selling off a stake in the World Cup," Masters told BBC Sport.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Exports surged 23.9% in the 12 months from July 2025, but that will only heighten concerns about “China Shock 2.0” that have economies all over the world contemplating draconian restrictions on Chinese trade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

This man, meanwhile, is contemplating waiting so that his wife will get a higher amount through survivor benefits in the event he dies before she does.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

Maxine is, after all, also an artist, trying to preserve her relationship with her children while going through a divorce, contemplating just how honest to be as she works through her mind’s frenzied state.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026

He’s in front of his cabin in the shade of the big slippery elm tree, contemplating a twisted limb.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George