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as in to contemplate
to give serious and careful thought to
carefully considering our options
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3
as in to think
to have as an opinion
consider the price too high
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as in to anticipate
to give consideration to (as unexpected circumstances or contingencies)
I had to consider the commute in deciding whether to take the job
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5
as in to admire
to think very highly or favorably of
her well-considered novels have seldom been best sellers
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In life, Cleopatra was closely associated with the goddess Isis, given that ancient Egyptians considered royal figures to be extensions of deities.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
Shenderovich noted that, for the health of a polity, its norms—what’s considered morally permissible—can often matter more than the laws that formally govern it.
—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
The Mexican restaurant received a yellow placard aftercooked chicken, pinto beans, rice and crema measured outside of the temperature range considered safe.
—Sacbee.com, 26 Sep. 2025
The New Currents Award — long considered BIFF’s signature competition for emerging Asian auteurs — was awarded to Korean director Yoo Jaein’s En Route To, solidifying the film’s breakout status.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2025
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
Shenderovich noted that, for the health of a polity, its norms—what’s considered morally permissible—can often matter more than the laws that formally govern it.
—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
The Mexican restaurant received a yellow placard aftercooked chicken, pinto beans, rice and crema measured outside of the temperature range considered safe.
—Sacbee.com, 26 Sep. 2025
The New Currents Award — long considered BIFF’s signature competition for emerging Asian auteurs — was awarded to Korean director Yoo Jaein’s En Route To, solidifying the film’s breakout status.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for consider
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The series is well-regarded by critics, who correctly hail it as a good starting point for little ones just now dipping their toes into Star Wars.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Sep. 2025
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Adams, who grew up in South Jamaica, Queens, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, has long aspired to be regarded as a role model for working-class kids from the outer boroughs, particularly for Black youth.—
Eric Lach,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
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In a Fox Business interview, Carr mentioned that the FTC is contemplating broadening its click-to-cancel rulemaking, asserting his disagreement with the previous administration’s approach to establishing the rule.—
Jordan Green,
Nashville Tennessean,
26 Sep. 2025
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Convenient scapegoat The council is widely considered unreformable because neither America nor Russia and China would ever contemplate giving up the veto privilege that gums up what could be an international peacekeeping organ.—
Andreas Kluth,
Mercury News,
26 Sep. 2025
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Gonzalez, the former National Security Council official, said senior policymakers thought that embassy staff were showing favoritism to Bukele, sending reports that minimized the growing crisis of democracy in El Salvador.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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Initially, the source was thought to be in an area between the football stadium and the high school’s dock area, but the gas utility determined that the leak was somewhere within the building.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
29 Sep. 2025
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The owners anticipate the new Muskego location will open at the beginning of 2026, though an official date has not been set.—
Adrienne Davis,
jsonline.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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Residents can anticipate wind gusts of up to 50 mph.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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The museum tour drew a rapt audience including Jeremy Strong — who frequently wears the brand on the red carpet — and wife Emma Wall, who admired the Vermeer paintings at the bottom of the Frick’s Grand Staircase.—
Kristen Tauer,
Footwear News,
28 Sep. 2025
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Bengals president Mike Brown paid tribute to Johnson, remembering him as someone who was greatly admired.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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This zone is crucial for pitch framing, where catchers use their presentation to influence umpires into calling borderline pitches strikes.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
27 Sep. 2025
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Generation X was the first to cope without ubiquitous workplace pensions, relying instead on a new savings tool called the 401(k).—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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Song broke out with her 2023 drama Past Lives, which follows a woman from Seoul, South Korea, who ponders her relationship with a childhood friend in the decades after her family immigrates to Canada and marries an American man in New York City.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
19 Sep. 2025
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These are all questions to ponder when evaluating expertise as a leader.—
Barbara Puszkiewicz-Cimino,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Banda believes that, with Usagi dead, Arisu will choose to stay in Borderland.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
26 Sep. 2025
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Many of singer D4vd’s friends in the Los Angeles music scene had come to believe that Celeste Rivas Hernandez was his 19-year-old girlfriend, long before the 15-year-old’s body was found dismembered in the trunk of his Tesla, which had been abandoned in the Hollywood hills a month earlier.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
26 Sep. 2025
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