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I wouldn't want her to think I was pressuring her or implying that I had been brooding all this time.

From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2018

Not Dickens so much, though I’m deeply flattered and embarrassed by the comparison, but I don’t see Dickens as a realist and I had been brooding on the realist novel.

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2012

She was Mrs. E. Noel Durant, 61, a retired banker's wife who had been brooding over her health.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was in tensely worried ; he had been brooding for months over the crowded anchorage at Pearl Harbor, the fleet's lack of manpower, ammunition, shore defenses, a proper supply train.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bessie’s presence, compared with the thoughts over which I had been brooding, seemed cheerful; even though, as usual, she was somewhat cross.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë