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contemplating

[kon-tuhm-pley-ting, -tem-]

adjective

  1. observing, studying, or thinking deeply about something.

    A stronger spirit and sense of purpose help shift the contemplating mind into a more action-orientated self.



noun

  1. the act of observing, studying, or thinking deeply about something.

    After some more contemplating over the last few days, I now know what I'm going to do.

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • contemplatingly adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of contemplating1

First recorded in 1580–90; contemplat(e) ( def. ) + -ing 2 ( def. ) for the adjective; contemplat(e) ( def. ) + -ing 1 ( def. ) for the noun
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The McLaren driver is talking at the team's factory, before this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix, and he's contemplating a number of things.

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Leeds lost its sprawling tram network in 1959 but, just 15 years earlier, civic planners had been contemplating tunnelling beneath the city centre to create an underground system.

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I had spent so much time contemplating my mom’s death before she died, thinking about how I wouldn’t be able to go on.

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But the changes his henchmen are contemplating will cause much more lasting damage even than the tariff madness.

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Haaland, though, hung about on the pitch with his runners-up medal weighing heavily around his neck, probably contemplating how this season had gone so wrong.

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