ruminate

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

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

He indicated the reclining ersatz animal, which continued to ruminate attentively, still watching alertly for any indication of oats.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

From this place of old age and treatable illness, Julian ruminates on the fallible nature of memory and its role in shaping our identities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

There’s a 2022 documentary called “Lynch/Oz” that ruminates on the ties between the befuddling obscurantist and the eternal blockbuster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025

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

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

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

Seeder quietly ruminates about how, back in District 11, everyone assumes President Snow is all-powerful.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

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

But he also said he ruminated on his legacy, fearing his family would see him as a “quitter.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024

Models ruminated about their next plate of pasta, distracted themselves from inopportune itches, and wondered over the sense of fashion amid wars.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 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

He pored over “Old Waldo” Emerson and ruminated on the philosopher’s essay on “Compensation.”

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

And instead of ruminating on the weight of that inheritance, he integrates it into his film, whose refrain-as-question is do you remember the future?

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 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

He was ruminating, “We’ll need our top field men for that.”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov