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cogitates

  • present tense form of cogitate (3rd person singular).

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But the narrator, thrilled and terrified by the prospect of committing to an entity who cogitates “a million times faster” than he can imagine, can’t help but pose “the indelicate question.”

From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019

She cogitates on questions like: What if she is making a choice she will always regret?

From New York Times • May 10, 2018

You could say that such works represent a convergence of opposite kinds of consciousness: one that thinks rationalistically in the most abstract terms possible and one that cogitates by means of visual and poetic metaphors.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2010

But when General Howe hears that Mary Philipse still loves Washington, is determined to go to him at Valley Forge, he cogitates a stratagem.

From Time Magazine Archive

He cogitates as he returns to the ingle-nook.

From Echoes of the War by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

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