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stewing

adjective as in cooking

adjective as in sweltering

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For a little while on Monday, he did not say yes to any of the jobs he was offered, stewing over whether they were appealing, senior enough or might box him in too much politically.

From BBC

But Schofield and his friends weren’t stewing or scanning the latest polling averages on Sunday.

“Either it’s Donald Trump, sitting in there, stewing, stewing over his enemies list; or me, with your help, working for you, checking off my to-do list,” Harris said at a recent rally.

Trump, she said, would enter office “stewing over an enemies list,” and she said she would walk in “with my to-do list,” including implementing a federal ban on price gouging on groceries.

“Either you have the choice of Donald Trump, who will sit in the Oval Office, stewing, plotting revenge, retribution, writing out his enemies list,” Harris said, “or what I will be doing, which is responding to folks like the folks last night with a to-do list, understanding the need to work on lifting up the American people.”

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