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Six example sentences with ruminate, each labelled with its topic.
She ruminated on the odd readings for a month before realizing the sensor had been logging in the wrong time zone.
Science
The chancellor's diaries show him ruminating for weeks over a single clause of the treaty before he let the envoys see it.
History
On the overnight train I ruminated on whether to turn back at the border, and by morning the question had answered itself.
Travel
Montaigne ruminated on a single question for years, whether he truly knew anything, and wrote a shelf of essays without settling it.
Philosophy
She ruminated on the buyout offer for a month, walking the factory floor each evening before deciding not to sell.
Business
The novel's narrator ruminates for thirty pages on a single cup of tea, and somehow the pages are the best in the book.
Literature
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