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Emily, John, and David ponder unsolved questions about ourselves and our world.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

Anyone hoping to prosper by holding a leveraged ETF for the long run should ponder Shōhaku’s lions tumbling into the depths of the gorge and the long, treacherous path back to the top.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

That’s why experts urge people of all ages to think ahead and ponder their end-of-life wishes while they’re still healthy.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

It leaves the rest of us to ponder what might become of this England team.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

It’s a good thing that only I know about Farooq, because that only leaves one person, me, to ponder the irony of the situation.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

“What’s a good story if things end up the way they began?” she ponders over the narration in the film’s opening sequence, itself a nod to how the first movie begins.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

Signs Honda are on the right track are what Alonso has been looking for as he ponders whether to stay in the sport beyond the end of the season.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Yet the music reflects an emotional wisdom that had to be earned through experience, as in the folky “Time,” which ponders her and Roach’s relationships with their two adult sons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

In his weekly Flow Show strategy note, Bank of America’s Michael Hartnett ponders the likelihood of Warsh imposing a rate hike to calm the long end of the Treasury curve.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

I can tell by Peter’s face that he ponders things just as deeply as I do.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

Treasury and eurozone yields fell as investors pondered whether the recent bonds selloff had gone too far and now offers attractive levels to start buying again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Yuriy, a senior instructor who led one of the squads across the gruelling obstacle course, has at times pondered the necessity of such trials given the nature of drone warfare.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

In a July 2025 text chain, an agent pondered whether facial recognition tools could be used to identify people on TikTok who admitted to being in the country illegally.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

They all pondered what the items revealed about two people who dominated politics here for so long.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

For all of that day, Mother pondered it.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

But by the time he enters high school, he’s already gone from “reading A.A. Milne to Bukowski,” and by 17, he’s pondering Sonnet #2 by Ted Berrigan, in awe of how Berrigan “subverted the form.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

"The biggest compliment you can pay Harry Kane is to ask yourself how long we've been pondering the question 'what will England do if Harry Kane gets injured?',"

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Take a look back at the memorable unsolved queries that Slate readers were pondering 20 years ago.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

The Schwab strategists began pondering this three years ago as what they called the “great moderation” era — two decades of disinflation, suppressed volatility and reduced supply shocks — was over.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

I peer off the side of the ship, pondering the depths, wondering what unknowable mysteries lie beneath us.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman