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contemplate English

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contemplate Verb

— If you contemplate something, you think it over slowly and carefully. John contemplated how to solve the hard mathematics question.

contemplate

— verb look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought contemplate one's navel — verb consider as a possibility I contemplated leaving school and taking a full-time job — verb (= study, meditate) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes He is meditating in his study — verb (= excogitate, reflect, mull, mull over, speculate) reflect deeply on a subject I mulled over the events of the afternoon philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate

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consider meditate ponder think reflect think over study cogitate speculate deliberate ruminate muse intend design view think about regard propose plan mull gaze examine envisage think of stare mull over judge excogitate deem weigh think carefully take a look at stare at scrutinize recollect reason project plot observe expect concentrate chew over be anxious anticipate worry wonder watch wait on wait undertake

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Simple sentences

Do you believe that elephants can contemplate life after death?
Happiness does not lie in things. It lies in the souls of people who reflect upon or contemplate them.

Movie subtitles

Do you contemplate knocking me down?
If you contemplate the matter at any length.
When you stop to contemplate some of the things you've said and done, it makes you feel like an idiot.
I warn you, if you contemplate such presumption. you will not be welcome here in the future as my guest.
I'm childish enough to contemplate helping my civilian brothers. even without reward, but I cannot spare any of my soldiers.
Then I ask you to contemplate a thing which is quite rare: The ultimate drunkard.
We're going to spent these days all together, and everyone will contemplate our most intimate sorrows.
I suppose that should be clear and alert so I can contemplate the future. The prospects of joining those gray-haired nymphs that sleep on the Thames embankment at night.
The chaste woman loves to contemplate dawn, doesn't she?
Blind and staggering, they contemplate the terrestrial paradise.
Open the door. Contemplate the stinking flower of adultery.
You won't escape me any more, thanks to this masterpiece I can contemplate every day.
I beseech senators to contemplate the spectacle we are making of ourselves.
What young girl of my age doesn't contemplate matrimony?
The Queen does not contemplate such a marriage.
Of course, I shall endeavor to convince the nawabs and maliks of Suristan that the action of the British government is not to be construed as unfriendly calm their natural resentment and curb any active reprisals they might so easily contemplate.
Moriarity, this is no simple crime that you contemplate.
It is wrong even to contemplate. the taking of a life, your own as well as another's.
I suppose that should be clear and alert so I can contemplate the future.
To contemplate one woman to the exclusion of others. may be for some men, but not for me.
And now join me, if you will, while we contemplate the perfect crime.
WHAT A MISERABLE THING TO CONTEMPLATE.
Contemplate the stinking flower of adultery.
No, sir, young man. Around here, you can pause, exhale, check, recheck, think, peruse, contemplate, wade through, thumb over, dip into.
I think if you do other work such as letters, such arrangement would contemplate raise in salary, but.
Of course, there is no legislation contemplate this type of situation perhaps because the existence labor license, is very recent.
The Emperor would not possibly contemplate such a plan.
Contemplate the danger of a man who thinks only of himself.
And more difficult, still, to contemplate how life could create itself, apparently, out of nothing.
So every year I come to these woods. to contemplate my place in the universe. fish, live off the land.
Even to contemplate such a matter gives me the mal de mer.
That's a frightening question to contemplate.
By being in such a situation by being in two different places simultaneously one can best contemplate ideas.
One does not like to contemplate it, sir.
All you can do now is contemplate the depth of your disgrace and try to die like a Cardassian.
Would ye contemplate it?

News and current affairs

But most member states are unwilling to contemplate anything that far-reaching.
But these criticisms reflect an inability to contemplate the current nature of armed conflict, which no longer follows the classical logic of military victory or defeat.
Once it is in place, Brazil's incoming president (no matter who he is) would have no reason to contemplate interfering with Brazil's normal debt servicing commitments.
Reserve holdings represent an outdated concept, and the world should contemplate some way of making them less central to the operation of the international financial system.
So, rather than simply shutting our doors to Chinese products, we might contemplate helping China by opening the doors of our regulatory agencies to Chinese regulators.
Just as Smith's minimal capitalism was transformed into Keynes' mixed economy, we need to contemplate a transition from the national version of the mixed economy to its global counterpart.
The horrors of a senseless war are almost too frightening to contemplate.
If you are a prudent and cautious investor, contemplate that possibility for a moment.
Every European should contemplate that possibility, at least for a moment, before resuming their current aversion to all things American.
Because of this, Americans can't afford to take even the minutest of chances with their ports - the consequences of error being too staggering to contemplate.
Even once-invulnerable China must contemplate a halving of its growth rate.
A debtor's strongest negotiating asset is always that creditors cannot contemplate default, because default would bring down the entire financial system.
India understands, though, that the collateral damage would be too high, the price in civilian lives unacceptable, and the risks of the conflict spiraling out of control too acute to contemplate such an option.
But the half-hearted prosecution that it has been willing to contemplate so far highlights the need for an international tribunal.
Today, US authorities appear willing to contemplate any measure, no matter how inflationary, to insure that none of its major banks and investment houses fails.
For decades, the MAFF's power meant that Japan's trading partners would not even contemplate free-trade discussions.
And as they contemplate their choices, they would be wise to consider how the continent is perceived from the outside.
Indeed, they probably contemplate land incursions into Iran, and possibly a decisive - and, from their perspective, long overdue - showdown with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
As they contemplate this turning point, China's leaders should be aware of how malleable US foreign policy currently is.

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