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Over at Fitch, the feeling is that the project will almost certainly be finished in time for the Olympics, mostly because the consequences of missing that deadline are too horrible to contemplate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 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

Skillfully collating the accounts of Auden’s intimates, he offers details about the poet’s sexuality, psyche, cratering appearance and deteriorating habits that are painful to contemplate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Reaching a kind of square of four leaf-locked trees which promised cooling, they flung themselves into the four-cornered shade to taste their Up sweat and contemplate the wildness that had come upon them so suddenly.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

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

Paul McCartney releases an album inspired by his youth in Liverpool, Marilyn Monroe gets a centenary-celebrating exhibition in Los Angeles, Brendan Fraser’s Dwight D. Eisenhower contemplates storming the beaches of Normandy, and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026

“The Drama” contemplates thorny matters, but it’s not satire.

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2026

One of the greatest operas of our time, John Adams’ “Doctor Atomic,” contemplates the creation of nuclear weapons as the functioning of a latter-day Faust, Goethe’s most lasting creation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

Bando joins me, folding his rod as he contemplates the dead tree and the leaf-strewn ground.

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

The move was contemplated for months, said Reagan, the CFO.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

But it certainly shouldn’t be expanded to the extent contemplated here—opening the federal courts to any passerby with a vague aesthetic grievance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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

Russell, 28, cut a forlorn figure afterwards as he contemplated the series of misfortunes that have derailed his season.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

He contemplated the motionless saw with a kind of hopeful dejection.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

Zoley said ICE is contemplating buying more than 10 facilities, and that number “could continue to grow.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

The 41-year-old married his partner, Georgina Rodriguez, on Tuesday and is contemplating a future orientated around his family.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 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

OpenAI and Anthropic are contemplating a price war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

The motif of a young woman contemplating her beauty goes all the way back to antiquity, but rarely has it been depicted with such disturbing Overtones.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson