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muse over





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While each quotation provides something to muse over, the whole thing might be best summed up by a line from the comic poet Alexis: “The entire human condition’s completely insane.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

As they strolled through Tiananmen Square in Beijing last September, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to muse over the possibility that organ transplants could dramatically extend human life.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

During intimate evening reveries and at occasional large-scale gatherings, they muse over the decades they’ve spent cultivating their own talents, with joy, satisfaction and maybe a twinge of regret.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2023

Les would often muse over its fate, asking friends and family if they thought the author had gotten it.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2022

It is here that we should get our speeches by heart, invent our impromptus; muse over the caprices of our mistresses, destroy a cabinet, and save a nation.

From Henrietta Temple A Love Story by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield




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