muse
verb (used without object)
to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
is musing
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present progressiveof muse (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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It’s February, and Greenamyre is musing aloud over a lunch bowl of rice, spinach, and goat cheese in his sunlit office, which adjoins his lab in the heart of Pitt’s medical campus downtown.
From Science Magazine ● May 4, 2023
Probably nobody is musing that an American president might wake up one morning and launch a nuclear strike against North Korea.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2021
His first words to Gloria, who is musing glumly at a bar, are as follows: “Are you always this happy?”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 1, 2019
She is musing about a radio show with Sirius called “Kicking Ass With Sheila Nevins” and maybe another book.
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2017
There is a divine charm in the tranquil face, tired but not fatigued, sad but not melancholy, suggesting that the sleeping mind of the immortal youth is musing upon solemn dreams.
From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by John Addington Symonds
