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Definition
to think deeply or carefully about something
- Then there was the problem, oft-pondered, never solved, of what to do with the old blade, which might imperil the fingers of his young.Chapter 1 (40% in)
- But Babbitt—the curst discontent was torturing him again, and heavily, in the impersonal darkness, he pondered, "I don't—We're all so flip and think we're so smart.Chapter 9 (63% in)
- Upon this theology he rarely pondered.Chapter 16 (53% in)
- He pondered, "Now, there's a real he-world.Chapter 16 (95% in)
- And as he pondered on the train home something in his own self seemed to have died: a loyal and vigorous faith in the goodness of the world, a fear of public disfavor, a pride in success.Chapter 24 (3% in)
- He had often and weightily pondered flappers smoking in Zenith restaurants, but he knew only one woman who smoked—Mrs. Sam Doppelbrau, his flighty neighbor.Chapter 28 (70% in)
- In his chilly cot, turning from aching side to side, he pondered of Tanis.Chapter 33 (3% in)
There are no more uses of "ponder" in Babbitt.
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