mull over
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Prince Andrew is portrayed as casually rude to servants - and palace officials mull over the royals’ lack of empathy: “They’ve never been late for a train - because the train waits for them.”
From BBC • Sep. 18, 2024
The unmade Quincy album made me wonder if writing this book made you mull over other missed opportunities.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2024
We should mull over the reasons for his success, which might begin with the fundamental question: Is it a requirement of the genre that a punk must be angry?
From Salon • Jan. 30, 2024
We mull over alternative routes to avoid traffic, cook up last-minute dinner plans and mentally prepare for tomorrow’s meeting.
From Scientific American • Nov. 2, 2023
Turtle paused in a pretense of letting the heirs mull over her last words, trying to figure out what to do next.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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