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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cogitate.

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Examples

  • But while Keyfob cogitates between left and right, he spots a big garbage bin and, being a man of economy, figures why run at all?

    Keyfob Haggis Paul Hargreaves 2011

  • The number of different ways in which Elizabeth approaches and studies and cogitates the death of her son Wade would justify a book on its own, and indeed constitutes a sort of book within this book.

    The Pain of Elizabeth Edwards 2009

  • The number of different ways in which Elizabeth approaches and studies and cogitates the death of her son Wade would justify a book on its own, and indeed constitutes a sort of book within this book.

    The Pain of Elizabeth Edwards 2009

  • Adam Panflick in his mid-40s cogitates about the usefulness of addiction as a fixed category. '

    Panflick -- The Addiction Wars (short fiction) 2008

  • We alone did light the fires, felled the trees in a grand parlay, gamed at dice on a losers stake gainsay and lost the pot; the thief of time delights our plight, he stands aloof, ignores debate, cogitates our certain fate, sees us leave the promised land a-feared and intestate –

    This Time, It’s Far Too Late Ivan Donn Carswell 2007

  • And the eyes, the ears, the tongue and the feet, administer such things as the brain cogitates.

    On The Sacred Disease 2007

  • Via AMERICAblog, Michael Berube cogitates on some correspondence from a conservative friend.

    December 2005 2005

  • We alone did light the fires, felled the trees in a grand parlay, gamed at dice on a losers stake gainsay and lost the pot; the thief of time delights our plight, he stands aloof, ignores debate, cogitates our certain fate, sees us leave the promised land a-feared and intestate –

    Archive 2007-10-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2007

  • April 2006-Miss Snark reads it again, and cogitates on placement. follow up phone call to make sure still not a loon

    Archive 2006-11-05 Miss Snark 2006

  • April 2006-Miss Snark reads it again, and cogitates on placement. follow up phone call to make sure still not a loon

    Holding Pen Miss Snark 2006

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