pondering
English
Verb
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- present participle and gerund of ponder
Noun
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- An act of rumination or cogitation.
- 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
- Now all his ponderings, however excursive, wheeled round Isabel as their center; and back to her they came again from every excursion; and again derived some new, small germs for wonderment.Category:English terms with quotations#PONDERING
- 2009 February 18, Jim Coyle, “Spoofing of premier a bad omen”, in Toronto Star:
- Alas, it looked yesterday, when the Legislature returned to business, as if Premier Dalton McGuinty's peculiar maunderings and ponderings of the past several weeks risk making him just that.Category:English terms with quotations#PONDERING
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Adjective
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