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ruminate

[roo-muh-neyt] / ˈru məˌneɪt /


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This leaves investors and analysts to ruminate amongst themselves.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

"It's the gift we give to an audience, it's just to ruminate on that very serious subject, antisemitism, cruelty of all kinds, hatred of the other," Lithgow said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026

After thinking a young girl's outfit in an airport was inappropriate, she started to ruminate over why those beliefs appeared in the first place.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

After Eva and Ryland briefly ruminate on fear and primal instinct, Ryland’s otherwise direct and unemotional government superior takes to the mic, performing a cover of Harry Styles’ “Sign of the Times.”

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

I now had time to ruminate on my situation.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

The author ruminates on Brahms’s inner qualities, telling us that Brahms has been misunderstood as uncivilized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

“Talking about all this like ancient history makes me feel, ‘Oh yeah, we’ve kind of come a long way,’” Pickles ruminates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025

As he writes, he ruminates on his mother in a voice-over.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

Harvey still ruminates about the semifinal loss because of how well the team played.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

After a scientific expedition to America, Aronnax ruminates over the true nature of the incidents.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

“I wonder if the Ancient Mariner in his latter days got really tired of rehearsing his old trauma,” she ruminated in an essay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

However, when the reindeer ruminated, this slow-wave activity was decreased during subsequent sleep, and the more they ruminated, the more the slow-wave activity decreased.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023

He also ruminated openly about her political future, privately boosting McCray for a potential campaign for Brooklyn borough president.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2023

A decade into his long, public career, Zev Yaroslavsky ruminated about his motivation for first seeking elected office.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2023

"Job ought to be easy enough," he ruminated.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

When we’re daydreaming and ruminating and self-reflecting and mentally time-traveling or imagining other people’s thoughts, we’re not present.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

Hill had been ruminating about a tell-all book from the early stages of the trial, a clerk from a neighboring county who’d assisted her testified at an evidentiary hearing on the jury-tampering complaint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026

That picture is complex, but ruminating on your actions can quickly become torturous.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2026

Of course, some anger and frustration will come out during these talks, but long-term wallowing and ruminating on perceived unfairness can be more damaging than the layoff itself.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 2, 2026

Milo nodded with spurious vim to indicate he still understood and then sat silent, ruminating gravely with troubled misgiving.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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