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How to pronounce cogitate in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cerebrate, think
Has types evaluate, excogitate, focus, give, judge, link, link up, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, pass judgment, pay, philosophise, philosophize, plan, ponder, pore, puzzle over, rationalise, rationalize, reason, reason out, reflect, relate, rivet, ruminate, speculate, study, think, think about, think over, associate, tie in, brainstorm, center, centre, chew over, colligate, concentrate, conclude, connect, contemplate, devote
Derivation cogitation, cogitative
Type Words
Type of ruminate, mull, speculate, excogitate, mull over, meditate, ponder, reflect, muse, think over, contemplate, chew over
Derivation cogitation, cogitative

Examples of cogitate

cogitate
Lost for good is time to consume and cogitate at a pace that permits much sense.
From the sacbee.com
At which prospect many politicians, many social hosts, gulp and cogitate.
From the forbes.com
I'll have to cogitate further, however, on many of those categories.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
Again, please take a moment to cogitate without checking the comments, so that I get independent opinions.
From the mattcutts.com
The program begins with an eight-minute chant during which the word cogitate is repeated incessantly.
From the time.com
Anyone believing that actual torture is infinitely worse than the mere threat of it will find little to cogitate on here.
From the nytimes.com
He promised to cogitate and follow up.
From the nytimes.com
It's hard to see anything in an ape's life that would have that sort of pattern, that they would cogitate about.
From the guardian.co.uk
Nonetheless, the moment invites us to cogitate a little upon the whole heavy-metal thing-to go back, as it were, to first principles.
From the theatlantic.com
More examples
  • Consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind
  • Think: use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere"
  • (cogitation) a carefully considered thought about something; "his cogitations were dutifully recorded in his daybook"
  • Meditation is a holistic discipline during which time the practitioner trains his or her mind in order to realize some benefit.
  • To meditate, to ponder, to think deeply; To consider, to devise
  • (v) to ponder or contemplate
  • Think, plan, or devise.