chew over

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Recent Examples of chew over Drivers get literal hours to stare at the bumper sticker on the car ahead and chew over their lives. Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2025 In this wholly original, self-aware cinematic work, a filmmaker chews over what might have been and playfully probes the inner workings of a genre at saturation point. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025 There will certainly be plenty of plot developments to chew over. Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025 Wall Street is chewing over critical data released last week on Amgen’s experimental weight loss injection – a potential competitor in the blockbuster obesity drug market. Annika Kim Constantino,ashley Capoot, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for chew over
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Verb
  • Hoover bounces back with a clean game, while Coach Prime contemplates making a quarterback change.
    Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In 2024, almost one in four Americans experienced mental illness, almost 18% had substance abuse problems and over 5% had contemplated suicide, according to the news release.
    Ray Stern, AZCentral.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This includes watching the sketches Stiller & Meara performed on countless talk shows, critiquing their respective styles and pondering how much or little from their seemingly candid appearances and interviews was meant to be taken as truth and not performance.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Many pondered what McDavid, many who believe is the NHL’s best player, would do.
    Greg Liodice, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The historic Belcourt Theatre will entertain all the Music City cinephiles.
    Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 1 Oct. 2025
  • All of these films have been heavily influenced by 20th century pulp fiction writers, but for his latest movie, Black goes directly to the source, adapting one of the genre’s key figures for an action-comedy as offbeat, idiosyncratic, and entertaining as any Black has made.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2025
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  • On Sept 5, 2024, a year before his death, Charlie Kirk was debating at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
    Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The effect is to infuse the story with an undeniable and knowing nostalgia; how quaint, at Alma’s party, to find everyone debating matters of representational consequence.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Front Office Sports reported Friday that Stars ownership is considering a site in Plano, Texas, approximately 20 miles from Dallas.
    Rob Rossi, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2025
  • In traditional Chinese medicine, this spice is considered to have antiseptic and digestive benefits.
    Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But that's nothing new, say linguists and others who study verbal communication.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Looking ahead, China plans to launch its Chang’e-7 lunar probe around 2026, carrying instruments such as a seismograph to study the moon’s internal structure.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Canales’ trust in Young growing A week after Dave Canales called a couple of running plays on third-and-long — prompting a veteran coach with another team to question Canales’ faith in his quarterback — Canales was more aggressive with his play calling with the game on the line.
    Joseph Person, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Once Gein's crimes came to light, he was questioned about a number of additional disappearances in the region.
    JR Radcliffe, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Berkshire Hathaway reportedly eyeing $10 billion deal.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Just in case Riverdale — with its musical numbers, supernatural storylines, and epic highs and lows of high school football — wasn’t bonkers enough for your liking, Archie and the gang are eyeing a return to TV.
    Andy Swift, TVLine, 1 Oct. 2025

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