CHEWED OVER Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

chewed over

verb

past tense of chew over

as in considered

to give serious and careful thought to yet another senator chewing over the idea of running for president

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Recent Examples of chewed over The judge also chewed over that argument as well. — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 17 Feb. 2026 The Democratic strategists who have chewed over their party’s unpopularity in memo after memo since last November pine for an authentic tribune of the working class. — Molly Ball, Time, 29 Oct. 2025 That’s been chewed over many times. — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2025

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Verb

First ring, first row of the Koch Theater is widely considered to have the best seats in the house.

— Fiorella Valdesolo, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2026
It is intended to help locate missing Black people who are considered endangered because of their age or the suspicious circumstances surrounding their disappearance.

— Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of considered

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Nvidia and other chipmakers fell more than 3% as investors contemplated the possibility that frontier labs could deliberately slow model development, and thus the massive infrastructure buildout thus far designed to support it.

— Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026
At the southern tip of Key Biscayne, where Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic meet, developers had contemplated ambitious projects for what is now Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of contemplated

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For more than a year, industry stakeholders in Georgia and the rest of the country have pondered how public policy could help jolt the film industry in the United States.

— Savannah Sicurella, AJC.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Many have pondered why Mexicans and Mexican Americans have such an affinity for those blokes from across the pond.

— Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of pondered

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Computer simulations indicate that one of the geometries studied by the team could improve NMR sensitivity and accuracy by roughly an order of magnitude.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026
But while chemtrails are firmly in the realm of conspiracy theory, electromagnetic fields and radio frequency radiation exposure have been studied for decades.

— Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of studied

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The article went viral, garnering pushback from the LGBT community over how it was covered and more attention to the LGBT bar itself from conservative pundits, who questioned why the bar still had a mask mandate.

— Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2026
That anyone who questioned this restriction was marginalized and excluded and actually thrown out of society.

— Jeff Spry, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of questioned

Verb

Voting begins in Kansas City As the Supreme Court weighed the challenge, the first ballots have already been cast.

— Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2026
The shootings, coming weeks after the Israel-Hamas war began, rattled Burlington and the West Bank and spurred calls for hate-crime charges as jurors weighed motive and mental illness.

— Michael R. Sisak, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026

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