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contemplating

[ kon-tuhm-pley-ting, -tem- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

observing, studying, or thinking deeply about something:
A stronger spirit and sense of purpose help shift the contemplating mind into a more action-orientated self.

the act of observing, studying, or thinking deeply about something:
After some more contemplating over the last few days, I now know what I'm going to do.

First recorded in 1580–90; contemplat(e) ( def ) + -ing ²( def ) for the adjective; contemplat(e) ( def ) + -ing ¹( def ) for the noun

As it was, The Affair ended its first season last night with me contemplating hurling my television out of the window.

The R-turned-D Navy man and ex-senator is contemplating a 2016 run.

And I can tap and tap and tap and yo and yo and yo, contemplating or not contemplating the inanity that is this life.

Contemplating spicing up your sex life with a homemade XXX-film?

And here you are contemplating your future in a very public forum.

While Benjy sat contemplating this creature, and wondering what was to be the end of it all, a bright idea occurred to him.

Of course he was contemplating the application of a "two year old hickory," as he went on at the rate of two forty.

Consequently Junot and Gazan were seriously contemplating raising the siege.

The threatenings of God's word are invested with a mantle of terrible literality by the facts we have been contemplating.

It does seem odd, continued Hester, our contemplating formal society, doesnt it?

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