I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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on
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I start musing on how it is we do find ourselves on the same side.
over
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He mused over it, thinking about Blackbeard's sweat and his icy rage.
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Repeating the title, we muse over what the book will probably be about.
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As he walked towards the towering ship, he mused over his good fortune.
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Though each portrait was essentially a straight forward head-shot, we are given far more to muse over than a strange face.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"I wonder why she was killed," mused Poirot.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A number of key executives mused aloud on the prospect of early retirement.
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How different things seem with a little light on the subject, I mused.
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Otherwise, Shamlou mused, he resembled a photographic negative.
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Perhaps, mused the pundits, he is needed now - at the very top.
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Repeating the title, we muse over what the book will probably be about.
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Three cheers for Nantucket, he muses, and the Devil do what he will with me.
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What a doleful and mocking funeral, Ishmael muses.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Maud Gonne was the muse of W.B. Yeats, the Irish poet.
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At times like that do you despair, turn to drink to try and coax back the muse ?
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It is profitable, but it leaves the comic muse high and dry.
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She still puts in occasional appearances, Graves concluded in all sincerity, as a muse to poets like himself!
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Soon she is up in the studio mixing his paints and dreaming of becoming her master's muse .