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Example sentences for: pondered

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We at Slate have pondered the situation and concluded that every American is influential in his or her own way.
' I have pondered on this phrase, and the only person I can imagine using it is the secretary of the local branch of a political party who, having handed the Committee members a short list of would-be candidates, asks: “Which of these people shall we render prospective?”
I've pondered these issues ever since.
Generations have pondered Alexander Gardner and Timothy O'Sullivan's justly famous photos of the dead at Gettysburg.
Analysts pondered why the pope's request worked this time, whereas similar pontifical pleas for mercy have failed in the past.