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pondering::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, reflective, ruminative |
Examples of pondering
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That's not a knock, but this isn't a movie that stands up to a lot of pondering.
From the kentucky.com
I spent a long time thinking harder and harder and pondering the likely winners.
From the independent.co.uk
They have become experts at making daily ends meet and not pondering the future.
From the economist.com
It is an issue they have been pondering, but never really tackling, for decades.
From the cnn.com
They left it pondering just how they could play so poorly with so much at stake.
From the washingtontimes.com
Economists pondering how bad things might get in the U.S. tend to look at Japan.
From the bloomberg.com
If you are pondering a dream vacation, Nickell suggests visiting a travel agent.
From the kentucky.com
I'm pondering the fate of a half-eaten jar of strawberry jam in my refrigerator.
From the nytimes.com
As you can see, you're probably pondering what this has to do with some finding.
From the iftomm2003.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.
