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This leaves investors and analysts to ruminate amongst themselves.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

Psychiatrists described him as neurotic, with a tendency to ruminate and worry, and said he had developed a "rigid sense of right and wrong".

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 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

“I try not to ruminate on the past but look to the future,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026

Abigail heard him out about the doomed course of the French Revolution but was somewhat more sanguine: “I ruminate upon France as I lie awake many hours before light,” she wrote.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

It’s no surprise that a show that draws its name from a story of environmental disaster ruminates on death.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Still, associating too much with the self has been linked to psychiatric disorders like depression, where the mind ruminates on the self and the body can become oppressive.

From Salon ● May 26, 2025

“Carmen Argote: I won’t abandon you, I see you, we are safe,” the artist’s show at ICA LA, ruminates on the connective tissue between generations.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025

Across a series of intimate dialogues, the film, adapted from a 1987 novel by Taichi Yamada, ruminates on the estrangement of a generation of gay men and the healing refuges of both companionship and fiction.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 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

In one study, people who traveled on a short weekend break ruminated less about work concerns than people who spent a similar break at home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

In his late 60s, on a show called “Legally Speaking,” Morantz ruminated about his battle with Synanon and all it had cost him.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024

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

In the six decades since, Lawrence Wright has ruminated often on his old hometown and how it’s different than it used to be.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023

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

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

Thanks to the dictionary pages she uses for wallpaper, she has a large vocabulary and is prone to ruminating about her ultimate purpose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

He likes ruminating on these spooky, half-remembered spaces.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 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

Her notes, released with Reggie’s permission, read: “He reports some ruminating and wishing more than anything else he had not been on the road at that moment.”

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel