cogitate
verb (used without object)
to think hard; ponder; meditate.
is cogitating
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present progressiveof cogitate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Colonel Lindbergh, 3,000 miles away from the Rockefeller Institute, this week is cogitating that problem.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is cogitating a little plot to himself.
From Israel Potter by Herman Melville
Sometimes Coffin, sometimes Purse, leaps out into his lap when he is cogitating.'
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various
While he is cogitating what course to take, Woodley, resuming speech, points it out.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid
