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ponder::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
| Type of | cogitate, think, cerebrate |
| Has types | introspect, premeditate, puzzle, question, study, theologise, theologize, bethink, wonder, cogitate, consider |
| Derivation | ponderer |
Examples of ponder
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Ponder battled injury problems throughout the season, as did the offensive line.
From the orlandosentinel.com
We are left to ponder what Poyang Lake in mid-winter will look like in 20 years.
From the forbes.com
Privately, college administrators fret about rankings and ponder how to move up.
From the washingtonpost.com
I'm sure that only a few pause to ponder the potential of capture and execution.
From the stltoday.com
Ponder got drafter first round because of his ability and knowledge of the game.
From the orlandosentinel.com
As the calendar flips to a new year, we ponder the past and dream of the future.
From the thenewstribune.com
Then, they were left to ponder just how close they came to upsetting the Saints.
From the kentucky.com
Ponder comes into this game with 237 consecutive passes without an interception.
From the newsobserver.com
Ponder served as a member of the Nashville Metropolitan Council for eight years.
From the tennessean.com
- Chew over: 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"
- (pondering) brooding: deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man";
- (ponderous) heavy: slow and laborious because of weight; "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn"
- Ponder (foaled in 1946, died 1958), an American Thoroughbred racehorse, was the son of the 1944 Kentucky Derby winner, Pensive and sire of the winner of the 1956 Kentucky Derby, Needles. Ponder, himself, won the Derby in 1949. ...
- (Pondering) Permanent brain (also called pondering) is thinking on opponent's time in turn-based games.
- To wonder, to think of deeply; To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly; to chew over, to mull over
- (pondering) Ruminations
- (ponderous) Heavy, massive, weighty; Serious, onerous, oppressive; Clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight; Dull, boring, tedious; long-winded in expression; Characterized by or associated with pondering; Dense
- (Pondering) A program is said to be "pondering" if it "thinks" on it's opponent's time. This is usually done by assuming the predicted opponent's move is played and analysing from there. There are other ways to generate "ponder moves" of course.
