ponder

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You wouldn’t necessarily call “What a Time” a concept album, though many of the songs ponder the ways memory and history can shape a romance.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

Crude futures lost ground but settled above the day’s lows as traders ponder the likelihood that the latest efforts toward U.S.-Iran talks will end in a peace agreement.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

How, they ponder, can the Wall Street benchmark be even higher than it was before the Iran war started while the conflict is only on pause during the largest oil supply disruption in history?

From MarketWatch • Apr. 20, 2026

Slumped into folding chairs inside his New York studio, renowned designer Marc Jacobs and his brand’s creative director, Joseph Carter, ponder the mood of Jacobs’ Spring 2024 ready-to-wear collection.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026

Then, with far more zeal than he had done anything in weeks, he picked up a pencil stub and wrote down under the inscription, in English, “Fathers and teachers, I ponder ‘What is hell?’

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger