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Recent Examples of cogitation That scheme isn’t dead; it’s just mired in the cogitation phase. Justin Davidson, Curbed, 18 Apr. 2025 The following cogitations, therefore, are not totally uninformed noisy opining. Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024 The narrator knows that there is something cheapening and peculiarly hollow about all this cogitation. Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024 But Silicon Valley’s recent inventions invite galaxy-brain cogitation of the sort Harari is known for. Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024 But the output is mostly a simulacrum of human thought, not the product of cogitation. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023 At that point Pohlad cuts to one of his many shots of the rural Washington landscape; the match of image and idea reminded me of Godard’s late period spiritual evocations, the product of intense cogitation — an artistic gift. Armond White, National Review, 11 Aug. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cogitation
Noun
  • That’s where Chase focused his thoughts on what needs to come next.
    Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • While speaking during a panel discussion at the event, Howard opened up about her time directing episodes of Ahsoka specifically — as well as her thoughts on the upcoming second season.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Across a little over nine years in English football, Guardiola has learned from a different culture and adapted his own ideas to keep pace with changing times.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • That idea also died against business and political opposition.
    Jim Riccioli, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The concept is raising concerns that the bloc is still too slow in improving its deterrence options, however.
    Silvia Amaro, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Engineers from Polytechnique Montréal have unveiled a new parachute concept based on kirigami, the Japanese art of folding and cutting.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But there have been some career stumbles recently, a superhero disappointment in particular, that must have complicated Johnson’s conception of his remarkable career.
    Richard Lawson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Many of the 90-plus works are returning to France for the first time since their conception.
    Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Sometimes, the impression is given that Israel thinks everyone hates them so why care about winning over hearts and minds?
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Still, Netflix’s voluminous library seems to leave the impression among viewers like Lerner that such decisions are handed down flippantly.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There's this whole notion of growing up.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Of course Swift’s legion of devotees would scoff at the notion that their heroine was anything but a pop goddess, their very own Glinda the Good Witch sent to comfort with lyrical poetry and aid crumpled hearts.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Cogitation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cogitation. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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