cogitate

With that distinction comes the expected propagation of ambitious museum exhibitions seeking to articulate, illuminate and cogitate over its local history of modern art, which is little-known.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

This week, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz are joined by Wesley Morris, critic at large for The New York Times and co-host of the Still Processing podcast, to cogitate on Conundrums 2023.

From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2023

"They will go over and over their thoughts, ruminate and cogitate sometimes for weeks and months," he says.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2022

Dyson presents mathematical arguments that these beings can, through shrewd conservation of energy, maintain the resources needed to survive, cogitate and communicate in an eternally expanding cosmos.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2021

But it was useless to try to cogitate on this thing.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

But the narrator, thrilled and terrified by the prospect of committing to an entity who cogitates “a million times faster” than he can imagine, can’t help but pose “the indelicate question.”

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 15, 2019

She cogitates on questions like: What if she is making a choice she will always regret?

From New York Times ● May 10, 2018

You could say that such works represent a convergence of opposite kinds of consciousness: one that thinks rationalistically in the most abstract terms possible and one that cogitates by means of visual and poetic metaphors.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2010

But when General Howe hears that Mary Philipse still loves Washington, is determined to go to him at Valley Forge, he cogitates a stratagem.

From Time Magazine Archive

As he sings at his work Mime cogitates how he shall thwart his plans and get possession of the sword.

From The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

He went back to Down House, cogitated for a decade or more and came up with a second book, Descent of Man, in 1871.

From National Geographic ● Jun. 18, 2017

Arthur William Bell, Bailiff of Guernsey, cogitated on the bench.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has cogitated the fact that more than seven tenths of the earth's surface is submarine territory, on the average only three or four miles submerged but in some places far, far deeper.

From Time Magazine Archive

Secretary of State Stimson, alive to the embarrassment of the situation, cogitated in his office.

From Time Magazine Archive

“You know,” he cogitated, his brow furrowing, “there should be a better system.”

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

Attorney Joyce Vance was on Substack adding her expertise to the cogitating.

From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2023

And he began to work in earnest on the manuscript for “City of Quartz,” which brought together ideas he had been cogitating on for years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2022

All this cogitating steered his mind back to the problems he had after high school, when he was dealing with a sometimes crippling depression and anxiety.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2018

Spurred on by the emergence of unexpected events and personalities onto the world stage, I have been cogitating deeply on the questions of where we’ve been and where we’re heading.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2017

He had a cogitating look on his face.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles