cogitate
verb (used without object)
to think hard; ponder; meditate.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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He has cogitated the fact that more than seven tenths of the earth's surface is submarine territory, on the average only three or four miles submerged but in some places far, far deeper.
From Time Magazine Archive
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