ruminate

We roam relentlessly through our memories of the past and ruminate restlessly on the future, thinking, if only it was this perfectly verifiable way, or that exactly quantifiable way.

Those missed opportunities haunted USC the rest of the game — and with no game scheduled between them from here, the Trojans will have an eternity now to ruminate on how it all went wrong.

He ruminated for weeks on how to define his philosophy as a coach and his methodology.

But with these participants with clinical depression, we actually induced them to ruminate about negative thoughts and feelings before they went on the walk.

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