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mulled (over)

verb

past tense of mull (over)
as in contemplated
to give serious and careful thought to mull over the idea for a while and then let me know

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mulled (over)
  1. contemplated
  2. pondered
  3. considered
  4. debated
  5. entertained
  6. studied
  7. questioned
  8. weighed
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
  • In the Reliant Stadium visitors’ locker room Sunday afternoon, Moore leaned against a door and pondered what his debut might mean for the 2026 season.
    — Tim Graham, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • For a brief second, Rocheleau pondered whether the attackers might target the FAA headquarters in Washington, DC.
    — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of pondered
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
  • Elsewhere in Georgia, deepfakes have shaken up several elections, and state lawmakers have debated how to respond to the issue for years.
    — Reed Williams, AJC.com, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The role of intention in determining claims of genocide is fiercely debated.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of debated
Verb
  • Your phone already knows how to keep you home and entertained for hours.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Best baby bath toys Keep your baby entertained during bath time with these cute play bubbles.
    — BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 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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“Mulled (over).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mulled%20%28over%29. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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