verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
contemplate suicide (= think that you might try to kill yourself )
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I contemplated suicide on several occasions after my daughter died.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
even
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Five years back he would not have even contemplated the Wiring Project.
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Though family planning services are theoretically available to them, they are not even contemplated at such an early age.
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Perhaps we should even contemplate some naval action to alleviate the blockade and bring help to the 50,000 civilians still trapped there.
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We had even contemplated living there permanently.
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It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped.
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These policies even contemplated the nationalization of industry, in rather more detail than had ever been considered by the Labour Party.
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At £166.75 this was far too expensive for most runners to even contemplate .
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These are the people who, however, hard it may seem, should really not even contemplate lining up at Blackheath.
ever
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No drug company would ever contemplate issuing a medicine which had so many unproven and untested facets to it.
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Whether he ever contemplated replacing the monks by secular canons, we do not know.
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It was not a situation I have ever contemplated encountering.
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But nothing sustained and organised of this kind was ever contemplated in London.
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If he had, how could he ever contemplate marrying another woman?
never
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She saw her aloneness, now loneliness, and she saw the vista of age, which she had never contemplated before.
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Often she will be able to sleep with rising superstars and juvenile celebrities who will profess love but never contemplate marrying her.
seriously
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And besides, Hudson was just too attractive to be seriously contemplated .
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Whether or not he seriously contemplated stepping down is, in fact, unclear.
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It would actually discourage expansion and seems too silly for the Government to seriously contemplate .
■ NOUN
action
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Perhaps we should even contemplate some naval action to alleviate the blockade and bring help to the 50,000 civilians still trapped there.
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He never acquires the ability to picture his feelings and is thereby unable to fully contemplate his actions in advance.
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This, they believe, is the lesson which other Third World figures contemplating similar action are meant to learn.
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All thought the blueprint hadn't worked; at least one was contemplating legal action .
change
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Skipper Steve Walsh was sent off, and manager Brian Little is contemplating a change of armband after that.
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The reasons people contemplate job changes are many and varied.
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This is a complicated area, where professional advice is recommended if you are contemplating a change .
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The review drew criticism as overly secretive, especially as it became clear that Rumsfeld was contemplating major change .
company
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Now my company is contemplating firing me.
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No drug company would ever contemplate issuing a medicine which had so many unproven and untested facets to it.
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There is no doubt that the convention offers far from ideal terms for private companies contemplating nodule-mining.
future
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I was squatting there, contemplating my future , when suddenly the door burst open.
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Jack went west for a holiday in the summer of 1954 while he contemplated his future .
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She peeled off her wrap, threw herself down on the bunk and gloomily contemplated the future .
government
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Only if public order appeared to be on the verge of breaking down would the government contemplate restricting political liberty.
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Equalising at 60 is far too expensive for the Government to contemplate .
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Or is it possible that the Government are contemplating a repetition of the 1986 strikes on civilian targets in Benghazi and Tripoli?
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It would actually discourage expansion and seems too silly for the Government to seriously contemplate .
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Before Mr Lawson's speech the markets had decided that the Government was unwilling to contemplate another increase.
life
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They are the reason I could not contemplate a life lacking a daily sight of hills.
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As for those who did not, it was too soon to contemplate the radically altered life that awaited them.
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Then came the moment that may yet help to keep Bradford up and leave Wimbledon to contemplate life in the Nationwide League.
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In contrast, the sea leaves no marks and man can then contemplate the essentials of life .
possibility
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However, when the unions proved reluctant to make concessions, the employers would have to contemplate the possibility of a lockout.
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Paragraph 11 is objectionable also, in my opinion, in that it appears to contemplate the possibility of a class remedy.
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Bismarck had refused to contemplate the possibility of Prussian judges exercising a supervision over political decisions.
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Was she really contemplating the possibility that he could be involved in something illegal?
■ VERB
refuse
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Bismarck had refused to contemplate the possibility of Prussian judges exercising a supervision over political decisions.
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Paige pushed the thought away; until the day dawned that she had to she refused to contemplate it.
sit
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As Guy sat contemplating this conclusion, a fair-haired child came racing around the corner of the north tower.
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Run, I think now as I sit in the dark contemplating Marcy Lupino.
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He read the note and then sat there silently contemplating the blossoms.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gaze at/contemplate your navel
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A spokeswoman denied that job losses were being contemplated.
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Isn't 17 a little young to be contemplating marriage?
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Many years ago he had contemplated writing a book about his childhood.
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The government was contemplating fining anyone who was found within the island's danger zone.
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The rollercoaster stops briefly during each of the loops so that riders can contemplate their own mortality.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Five years back he would not have even contemplated the Wiring Project.
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It starts when organizational leaders, planners, and consultants are contemplating the alternatives available to them at a strategic moment.
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Meanwhile the audience contemplates his grand opus, wondering what comes next.
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Run, I think now as I sit in the dark contemplating Marcy Lupino.
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Secondly, we shall need to contemplate the various options available for disposing of the company's properties.
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The dealer contemplated suing the recruitment agency until he found a better job.
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Though family planning services are theoretically available to them, they are not even contemplated at such an early age.