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Example sentences for: pondering

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The cover story marvels at the "Wild Bunch" of egotistical celebrities (including Warren Beatty and Donald Trump) who are pondering third-party runs for the presidency.
It's a question I've never really considered, but pondering it now, I find the answer unsettling: It wouldn't be all that different.
(This isn't to say Dole was pondering his wives' relative fertility.)
During the Flytrap hullabaloo, commentators promised that the country would spend years pondering the meaning of this impeachment.
But in child care, as in the behavioral sciences generally, we could have saved ourselves a lot of time and trouble by recognizing at the outset that people are animals, and pondering the implications of that fact.