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According to some accounts, he had brooded over a demotion from sergeant after military censors intercepted a letter deemed to be critical of the conduct of the war.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2018

Hailey, 35, does not believe he could have survived the blow to his playwriting morale except that he had already completed Who's Happy Now?, over which he had brooded for ten years.

From Time Magazine Archive

For days the evil mountain had brooded, had hardly puffed a breath into the sky.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed, Hemingway had brooded and passed judgment upon it in print.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was, it occurred to him, his father’s son, and now he brooded in the same spindle-back Windsor chair his father had brooded in.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson