muse
verb (used without object)
to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
mused
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past participleof muse.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof muse.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
museverb (used without object)to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
Example Sentences
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As usual at breakfast, the faithfuls seated early mused over who may have been murdered overnight: "If Jerry's not here, I don't think I can handle it," Romesh Ranganathan confessed.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Onstage after the Los Angeles screening of “You Can See Everything” earlier this month, Fielder mused about Holmes’ left-field invitation to make a movie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
One young fan mused, “Is Nixon pulling off the greatest posthumous political comeback in history?”
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
As Mark Cuban mused, if the state doesn’t receive any incremental revenue, “what’s the point of that?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
“I wonder, if I keep pulling, if Sasha will just disappear into negative space,” she mused.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
