verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
how
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It is interesting to ponder how the values of planners are formulated with respect to determining aesthetic criteria for decision-making.
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I kept pondering how kinglets, no larger than the end of my finger, could survive in this cold.
over
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As she slopped about in the cooling water, Jess pondered over this peculiarity.
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As the midwife examined her, Nina pondered over her words.
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Doubtless MI5 translators wasted hours pondering over these supposed gems of intelligence.
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He pondered over how to refuse old Igor's invitation.
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His clients were treated well, and were respected and pondered over by him.
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All in all an issue to be re-read and pondered over .
■ NOUN
future
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As I pondered my professional future with the company in the late Sixties, the self doubts didn't go away easily.
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They did not consider doing odd jobs while pondering his future a viable option for their son.
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Secure Ministers spent a weekend at Chevening in Kent pondering the future of social security.
moment
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She pondered anxiously for a moment , then decided to jump down anyway.
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He pondered for a moment and tore it up.
problem
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I sat in the pie shop kicking my heels and pondering the problem .
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He was still pondering on the problem when he drifted into a deep and dreamless sleep.
question
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I am proposing to ponder the question of Letterman's script up in the higher altitudes.
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However, it was no use pondering on unanswerable questions .
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He stopped to ponder the question .
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Even as she pondered the question , Silas came into the office.
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Political moralists can ponder those questions to their hearts' content.
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Like any stimulating text it leaves the reader pondering on more questions than it answers.
time
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We take time to ponder and bring to consciousness whatever is evoked.
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It happened so quick he had no time to ponder .
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And at the same time , I pondered a little over who had tried to kill me, and why.
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Jody is almost glad she has no time to ponder this more deeply.
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And all the time I pondered upon the enigma of Mrs Rumney.
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It is worth spending a little time to ponder the significance of this.
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Why should I waste my time pondering over Luke's motives - for anything?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Webber has been pondering retirement since June.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His mind always at work, Alvin pondered ways to make such programs more appealing to unsophisticated audiences.
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I pondered pouring the cappuccinos on the floor and sweeping out but figured he might just shoot me in the foot.
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I was pondering this alternative when my mind was made up for me by a passing freighter.
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She was pondering this in a panic, when she heard the scream of the children and the sound of feet running.
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Strange, Mowbray pondered, that Adam had not come to see them this Christmas.
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The purpose, I think, is to ponder questions important to human experience.
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We would do well to ponder the anguish of those turbulent years.