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Hill had been ruminating about a tell-all book from the early stages of the trial, a clerk from a neighboring county who’d assisted her testified at an evidentiary hearing on the jury-tampering complaint.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

Q: How did you come up with the idea for “King of Joy”? Was it a flash-in-the-pan concept or something you had been ruminating on for a while?

From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2019

There they approached writer Winnie Holzman about creating their next series, and when Herskovitz mentioned Secret/Seventeen, she “really sparked to it”, as she had been ruminating about her own adolescence.

From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2017

It had interested me for years, and I had been ruminating on it for several weeks.

From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Straus, Oscar S.

"But, look here," said Mr. Octagon, who had been ruminating; "if, as the doctor says, death was instantaneous, how could your aunt have rung the bell?"

From The Secret Passage by Hume, Fergus