- present participle of philosophize.
philosophizing
Example Sentences
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This enchantment was captured by a 24-year-old Virginia Woolf, who visited an English fen and its surroundings in 1906, and described the area as a “strange, gray-green, undulating, dreaming, philosophizing and remembering land.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
He soon found out that there are millions of people in this country who are not impressed with his adolescent philosophizing.
From Salon ● May 21, 2025
But the time for philosophizing is clearly over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
What stands out is his lack of philosophizing or waxing poetic.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2023
Burnet’s argument was met with widespread horror; as Herbert Croft, the bishop of Hereford, put it, ‘This way of philosophizing all from natural causes, I fear, will make the whole world turn scoffers.’
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
