Example Sentences

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The architects of the internet don’t appear to have contemplated the possibility that anyone would seek to monetize IP addresses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

The Dodgers have contemplated deploying Shohei Ohtani out of the bullpen.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025

"We could never have contemplated this would grow here," says farmer Sarah Taylor, whose land the rice is planted on.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2025

Other schools across the country have contemplated similar resolutions.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024

Presented with the night sky, Eratosthenes might have contemplated the cosmological speculations of Thales, Anaximander, Leucippus, and the Pythagoreans.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro