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cogitate the meaning of symmetry in physics†
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...to cogitate upon the discovery he had made, and exult in the prospect of the rich field of enjoyment and reprisal it opened to him.† (source)
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But when the cause is a rule of necessary logic, it is impossible to cogitate the counterfactual "were it not the case".†
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"Ol' Villan had a dog once that run away with the wolves," Bill cogitates aloud.† (source)
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The book is called, "The Practical Cogitator".†
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Peace lay on Devon like a blessing, the summer's peace, the reprieve, New Hampshire's response to all the cogitation and deadness of winter.† (source)
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Cogitation, as she called it, clouded things and prevented action.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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I spare you the twists and turns of my cogitations, for no conclusion was found on the road to Headingley, and I ask You to suppose that I soon found out my mistake about the turning and retraced my steps to Fernham.† (source)
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And he was still cogitating while Mason was exclaiming: "Then you admit that you knew her?"† (source)
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But be warned, Because Arabella almost learned too late, That before we love, we must cogitate!† (source)
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Having thus given his parent God speed, young Jerry seated himself on the stool, entered on his reversionary interest in the straw his father had been chewing, and cogitated.† (source)
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"Ol' Villan had a dog once that run away with the wolves," Bill cogitates aloud.† (source)
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He pushed his helmet back on his head, a cogitative move.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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And the progress of the third act, which he had been turning over in his mind when the wasp put an end to cogitation, was coming clearer all the time.† (source)
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He could not get away from the fact that if he had been brought up as she had they would have been no more fit to find their way about than the Babes in the Wood; nor could he, for all his anxious cogitations, see any honest reason (any, that is, unconnected with his own momentary pleasure, and the passion of masculine vanity) why his bride should not have been allowed the same freedom of experience as himself.† (source)
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Then he tossed the marble away pettishly, and stood cogitating.† (source)
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