verb
ADVERB
▪ carefully , deeply , hard , seriously
▪ (for) a moment
▪
She ~ed for a moment before replying.
▪ quietly , silently
▪ aloud
▪
She ~ed aloud the question of what should be done.
VERB + PONDER
▪ leave sb to
▪
He walked out of the room, leaving me to ~ what he had just said.
▪ be forced to
▪ pause to , stop to
▪
Spencer stopped to ~ the thought.
PREPOSITION
▪ about
▪
This was something I had been ~ing about for some time.
▪ on
▪
I walked up the stairs, ~ing on her reaction to my news.
▪ over
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I ~ed hard over the reply to his letter.
Ponder is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ fate , ↑ future , ↑ implication , ↑ meaning , ↑ move , ↑ mystery , ↑ predicament , ↑ question , ↑ situation