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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 Melville, Herman

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 Reid, Mayne