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Origin of woolgathering
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“This harms equal status of each Justice,” Mr. Denniston wrote on Twitter, “gives the CJ arbitrary power, diminishes cross-bench exchanges, promotes wool-gathering by lawyers, prizes order over depth, lets technology triumph, looks amateurish.”
From New York Times • May 18, 2020
You see it happen on any geek community where people’s wool-gathering gets to the point where they’re speculating that Rey is actually Kylo Ren’s daughter or that Tyrion Lannister is going to turn into a dragon.
From Salon • Feb. 25, 2016
Here we be, starting our real lives, and she off wool-gathering about Satiddy morning cartoons.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
She went through her dancing mechanically, and always seemed in the clouds, or, as her sisters would say, "wool-gathering."
From Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I by Halidom, M. Y.
A boy who won't learn, sits over a book, and is all the time wool-gathering?
From Stories and Pictures by Peretz, Isaac Loeb
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