contemplate
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Kaushal says the Union’s blockade of Confederate ports during the Civil War starved the U.K. of cotton and pushed the world’s then-military superpower to contemplate breaking it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
At that stage, Strategy was sitting on unrealized losses of almost $5 billion and despite public displays of bravura and a refusal to contemplate selling, the pressure on Strategy’s stock price was relentless.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
Losing Brown and Cummings was grim enough but the fear of losing Steyn as well was too much to contemplate.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
Investors should contemplate this war’s financial effects just the same.
From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026
They could stand back from their immediate experience and contemplate the bigger picture.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing contemplate
Of Mice and Men
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List 5
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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