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chew over, cogitate, consider, contemplate, debate, deliberate, entertain, eye, kick around, meditate, mull (over), perpend, pore (over), question, revolve, ruminate, study, think (about or over), turn, weigh, wrestle (with)
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Fortunately for the Trojans, the Pac-12 Hotline has been pondering possible replacements for Swann for weeks — because Swann’s departure was inevitable. — Jon Wilner, Orange County Register, "USC needs an athletic director: 6 potential candidates," 9 Sep. 2019 James Madden, an architect based in South Laguna, pondered the hoodies closed around the sculptures’ faces. — Daily Pilot, "Realistic new sculptures of hooded men outside Laguna Beach City Hall draw mixed responses," 27 Aug. 2019 Why not export the philosophical conundrum to someone who spends his life pondering these kinds of questions: Fabien Cousteau. — Georgia Frances King, Quartz, "Are aquariums moral? It’s complicated, says Jacques Cousteau’s grandson," 16 Aug. 2019 Mazda’s had 30 years to ponder and refine those kind of details. — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, "Crashing a Ferrari Party," 13 July 2019 Like other physicists of his time, Einstein was pondering several seemingly unrelated puzzles. — Quanta Magazine, "The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest Discoveries," 26 June 2019 President Trump nominated him in March after publicly pondering the possibility of picking his personal pilot for the job. — BostonGlobe.com, "Beyond Meat’s Restaurant Reach Expands With Dunkin’ Sandwich," 26 July 2019 The finale gave us the apocalypse that was promised all season, and with it plenty of mysteries to ponder until the show returns in 2020. — Abbey Maxbauer, refinery29.com, "Where The End Of Dark Season 2 Leaves Us," 30 June 2019 Given such a smoking gun, Melott turned to a question scientists have pondered since at least the 1950s: How might these supernovas affect Earth and its life? — Rebecca Boyle, WIRED, "Exploding Stars May Have Killed Off Prehistoric Predators," 20 Jan. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'ponder.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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