muse
verb (used without object)
to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
have been musing
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present perfect progressiveof muse.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Commentators have been musing over how the ‘Harris Hop’ mave have turned into something resembling a ‘flop’.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024
For in the latest irony in a peculiar political year, both Clinton and Perot have been musing about similar -- even identical -- vice-presidential nominees.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of my experiences in cooks have been musing enough.
From Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
It must have been," musing; "nothing else could account for her throwing over a nice fellow like Foster, and a good match too, for poor loony Val without a sixpence.
From Leonore Stubbs by L. B. Walford
I have been musing upon "my sorrow was stirred."
From A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England by Eliza Southall
