pondered

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Back in the 2010s, for instance, executives at Gilead Sciences pondered how much to charge for Sovaldi, its miracle cure for hepatitis C.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

The question that Barclays analyst Dan Levy pondered on Tuesday was, of course, why?

From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026

England's pace attack will have collectively pondered, fretted and chewed the festive bowling fat on their journey from Adelaide to the Melbourne Cricket Ground this week.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025

At 10 he pondered Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s definition of the Russians as a “God-bearing nation” and concluded that “all national stereotypes were nonsense.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

Sherman picked up the bar and pondered the wounded piece of steel.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam