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premeditating

verb

present participle of premeditate

as in contemplating

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For eight days in April, along the rocky coastline in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the new president of Georgetown University spent time at a Jesuit retreat center, quietly contemplating the task before him.

— Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026
The offer came at a time when Miami-Dade County Public Schools, and many other public school districts in Florida, have closed or consolidated schools and are contemplating even more closures.

— Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026

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Koon would later be diagnosed with depression, and has since feared meditating again.

— Lé Baltar, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2026
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are a particularly fertile period for meditating on this condition, then still experienced as striking, not yet normalized.

— Artforum, Artforum, 28 Sep. 2026

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The idea is that individuals pursuing their own interests in a free market can, without intending it, advance the interests of society as a whole.

— Linda K. Brown Stroh, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
The plane was flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv and was intending to land at Ben Gurion midmorning on a busy weekday.

— Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 5 Oct. 2026

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That was the case with hydraulic mining in the West, which involved aiming a torrent of water under high pressure to blast away soil and boulders to expose the underlying gold veins.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
In addition, Saint Laurent is aiming to double its sales to VICs by 2030, and to double its business in Asia within the same time frame.

— Miles Socha, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026

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