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What words refer to thinking about something for a period of time?think about brood cogitate consider give consideration to contemplate meditate muse mull over occupy your mind ponder reconsider reflect reflection ruminate speculate study weigh wonder go around in your mind do some thinking keep your mind on have something on your mind deduce deduction induction inductive logic apply yourself pay attention bethink conclude observe process reason theorize
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I've been thinking about it.
I was just thinking about you.
Death is something that we're often discouraged to talk about or even think about, but I've realized that preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.
I keep thinking about when we met.
I'm thinking I'll take a few days off.
I was thinking maybe I could help you.
I was just thinking about something.
What were Tom and Mary thinking?
Tom has been doing a lot of thinking.
What is critical thinking?
What do you think I'm thinking right now?
I was just thinking about her.
You'd better change your way of thinking.
I can't quit thinking about you.
It's useless to keep on thinking any more.
Prime numbers are like life; they are completely logical, but impossible to find the rules for, even if you spend all your time thinking about it.
You have been thinking about this problem the whole morning. Take a break; go eat lunch.
You seem to be thinking of something else.
This business plan of yours seems almost too optimistic. All I can say is I hope it's more than just wishful thinking.
Your way of thinking is quite distinct from mine.
Your idea is definitely worth thinking about.
I'm thinking of going abroad.
What are you thinking about?
You have no good reason for thinking as you do.
I'm thinking of visiting you one of these days.
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I'm thinking about pushing the button.
I was just thinking that we could have something.
Ran outside, and the sky this just this odd color that I've never seen in my life, and I'm thinking it can't be the show doing this because that's way out of their powers and their control.
By the way, I'm thinking...
You're thinking about something else, right?
Are you thinking about that woman earlier?
Thinking about it, I have met him first before you.
Until when are you thinking of making a laughing stock out of me?
Thinking about it, her appearance is similar to what people say about a gumiho!
Only thinking that I was important all my life.
What are you thinking about right now?
Haven't you been thinking about me?
Are you thinking about Musashi?
It must have been a terrible ordeal and we're all thinking of you.
You flatter me thinking I have such influence on His Majesty.
I'm thinking if you had 20 years more experience, what a difference that would make for T.J.
You know, uh, in prison, all anyone's ever thinking about is escaping.
You know what I was thinking about?
I was thinking about Thirio.
I kept looking at the door, thinking Rie was gonna walk in at any second, but she never did.
You're not seriously thinking of killing yourself, are you?
You've been thinking about your mom?
Wow, what the hell is that guy thinking?
I can't even think about derivatives without thinking of that tutor in manor hall.
Now Lebel finds out that the United Mechanics's most dangerous competitor was behind the poisoning attempts and the stolen drawings, and that now they were thinking of getting rid of him.
Thinking he's alone, since he doesn't hear anything, he tiptoes his way in.
Someone switched it for mine, thinking they got the original.
But I'll be thinking of you.
Let me do the thinking.
I kept thinking of my kids.
He died because of me. But, because I'm King, I can't be just thinking of these.
Who is thinking about you so much now?
You're not possibly thinking about going abroad again to make more money, are you?
Continuously looking at the phone and thinking of me? Yes.
What are you thinking about?
News and current affairs
Berlin today is vibrant and rejuvenated, rebuilt by the German peoples' hard work and sacrifice to unify the country, and an apt setting for the conference of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), which I was there to attend.
Eastern thinking, by contrast, has been abductive, moving from pragmatism to guessing the next steps.
Free-market thinking evolved from Anglo-Saxon theorists (many from Scotland), who migrated and colonized territories, allowing fortunate individuals to assume that there were no limits to consumption.
European continental thinking, responding to urbanization and the need for social order, emphasized institutional analysis of political economy.
New thinking is required to manage these massive and systemic changes, as well as the integration of giants like China and India into the modern world.
With a dispassionate eye on the long game, what will the president himself be thinking?
While the war in Iraq has been based on wishful thinking, the war in Afghanistan was necessary and unavoidable because it was there that the terrorist threat of September 11, 2001, originated.
This flies in the face of conventional thinking, which continues to claim that mandating carbon reductions - through cap-and-trade or a carbon tax - is the only way to combat climate change.
Now is the time to start thinking about how to engage all nations, including large emitters, in conversations about what to do after the treaty's expiration in 2012.
Each is its own industrial revolution, and will profoundly alter our lives and ways of thinking.
The new unilateralists who dominated Bush's first administration made the mistake of thinking that the unipolar distribution of power in the military context was sufficient to guide foreign policy.
If either country adhered to the thinking embodied in the Bush administration's new nuclear policy, there would be little reason for each not to seek to integrate nuclear weapons even more deeply into their own contingency plans--and possibly use them.
Israel made a similar mistake in thinking that it could use its enormous margin of conventional military power to destroy Hezbollah in last summer's Lebanon War.
The tragedy of such thinking is that it does not allow for any moral and political complexity or nuance, yet that is exactly what will be needed if the many problems surrounding Iran are to be resolved.
Obama, Rudd, Zapatero, and other forward-thinking leaders can therefore make a huge difference by following up on their pledges at the G-8 and insisting that the aid really works.
It is time for Greece, other eurozone members, and the European Commission to start thinking seriously about that option.
But it is wishful thinking to believe that they can be persuaded to act otherwise by international declarations that lack enforcement mechanisms.
Beyond his message's wishful thinking, the public's reaction to the messenger was a mixture of disbelief and indifference.
Recognizing the ways in which she has enriched people's thinking about difficult - and historically masculine - subjects can only be good, not only for the women she inspires, but also for the men she influences.
The IMF is on much weaker ground, however, in thinking that its one-size-fits-all global tax system will somehow level the playing field internationally.
Doctors rely on observation of memory loss and other thinking deficits (such as reasoning or language comprehension) - signs that plaques are already present in the brain.
His boundless energy and quick thinking delivered success from behind the scenes.
And that means that both sides have stopped thinking through the consequences of their actions.
But, to talk with Iran effectively, one must understand Iranian values and thinking.
Independent thinking is an underestimated factor.
It is usually assumed that developing economies need to build resources that emulate those in the developed world, but this could actually stifle the most creative thinking.
And US President Barack Obama's just-completed visit to Israel provides an opportunity to explore genuinely new thinking.
Any malicious wishful thinking on the part of Assad's regime would be dispelled with every glance at the sky.
The two of you also went against conventional Israeli thinking by breaking away from your Likud party, greatly weakening the ideological stranglehold that Likud's far-right central committee held on Israeli politics.
The realization that withdrawal from populated areas, and thus an end to holding another people under permanent occupation, was necessary to preserve the Jewish nature of Israel clearly brought the two of you to the center of Israeli thinking.