: meditation
My musings and writings on this issue do not come from the groves of academe.—
Herbert S. White
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he was clearly in a musing mood, and did not feel like talking just then
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Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2025
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Among a flurry of nationalistic musings was an obscure academic named George Grant who scored a surprise bestseller in 1965’s Lament for a Nation.
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Screenwriter-director Kevin Smith’s low-key musings and loopy wisdom are nicely wrapped with an unaffected sweetness.
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On Substack, she is beloved for her video musings on topics as diverse as Jimi Hendrix, Nikolai Gogol, and her cat.
—Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2025
The setting of a raucous party allows DaCosta to thread strikingly modern musings on the intersections of race, queerness, and class into Ibsen’s classic without weighing it down.
—Abby Monteil, Them., 28 Oct. 2025
Among a flurry of nationalistic musings was an obscure academic named George Grant who scored a surprise bestseller in 1965’s Lament for a Nation.
—Dónal Gill, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
Screenwriter-director Kevin Smith’s low-key musings and loopy wisdom are nicely wrapped with an unaffected sweetness.
—Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for musing
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“Musing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/musing. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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