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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
pondering en · ADJ
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(no-gloss) [no gloss]
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ponderingly
pondering en · NOUN
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An act of rumination or cogitation.
Alas, it looked yesterday, when the Legislature returned to business, as if Premier Dalton McGuinty's peculiar maunderings and ponderings of the past several weeks risk making him just that.
2009 February 18, Jim Coyle, “Spoofing of premier a bad omen”, in Toronto Star:Now all his ponderings, however excursive, wheeled round Isabel as their center; and back to her they came again from every excursion; and again derived some new, small germs for wonderment.
1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
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consideration · deliberation
pondering en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of ponder