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deliberated

verb

past tense of deliberate
as in pondered
to give serious and careful thought to the jury deliberated the case for three days before returning a verdict

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Recent Examples of deliberated The jury deliberated for several hours before reaching its verdict after a weeklong trial that saw testimony from the three wounded men and psychiatric experts called by the defense and prosecution. — ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026 Before the jury deliberated, Justice Dewey summarized the case, controversially favoring Lizzie’s innocence while citing her character and involvement in her church. — Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2026 Jurors deliberated for five and a half hours before reaching their decision, according to the district attorney's office. — CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026 Lindsay Clancy's first trial stretched on for six weeks of testimony and jurors deliberated for more than 38 hours. — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026 Deadlocked jurors have deliberated seven days, with one panelist accused of misapplying reasonable doubt, exposing deep divisions over whether the Massachusetts mother is criminally responsible for killing her three young children. — Michael Casey, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026 Walsh was closely following the Clancy trial and was discussing the case in an online group chat as the jury deliberated just hours before her son was found, prosecutors said, according to FOX 32. — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026 The judge has declared a mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s triple-murder trial after the jury deliberated for seven days without reaching a unanimous verdict. — Lauren Del Valle, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026 Karen Boyd and Carlos Silva were both asked to leave the chamber after several warnings from O’Hare to stop talking while the court deliberated. — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deliberated
  1. pondered
  2. debated
  3. contemplated
  4. considered
  5. entertained
  6. studied
  7. questioned
  8. weighed
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Swiss neutrality has been enshrined in the constitution since the mid-19th century, but its meaning has been debated for years.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The state’s practice of charging prisoners was debated by the state legislature.
    — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of debated
Verb
  • 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
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
Verb
  • Hot on the heels of his Golden Eye award ceremony on Saturday night, John Turturro entertained another crowd at a Zurich Film Festival masterclass on Sunday.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Your phone already knows how to keep you home and entertained for hours.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of entertained
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • 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
Definition of weighed

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“Deliberated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deliberated. Accessed 30 Sep. 2026.

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