cogitate
verb (used without object)
to think hard; ponder; meditate.
cogitates
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present tense formof cogitate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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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
As he sings at his work Mime cogitates how he shall thwart his plans and get possession of the sword.
From The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
