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verb

ruminate

CEFR C2

to think something over at length and unhurriedly

In a sentence

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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