philosophize
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But that proved impossible, given the bench’s outdoor life, where it was used as a jungle gym for neighborhood kids, or a couch for friends to sit and philosophize about this piece of movie history.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025
After Hal and Josie’s meet-cute, they see sights blandly, philosophize blandly, blandly tiptoe around the notion of romance, and criticize each other — yes, blandly, but with an occasional touch of “salty” language.
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022
The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates claimed his daimon told him to philosophize so he could awaken the Athenian people.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
His writing, she added, made people “free to philosophize in a way that, to paraphrase Mills’ first intellectual hero Marx, seeks not merely to describe the world, but to transform it.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2021
I studied philosophy in college and didn’t realize until my senior year that no one would pay me to philosophize when I graduated.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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