ruminative

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Recent Examples of ruminative The joke, delivered in Jay’s ruminative style, plays well. Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ruminative
Adjective
  • Brian Dunne’s terrific new album Clams Casino possesses that same kind of teleportation magic, albeit with less nostalgia and more melancholy.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
  • If the themes sound melancholy, Jackman ensures the execution is never dour.
    Leila Latif, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Told from the point of view of Ruffalo's lawman and the everyman (Tom Pelphry) who is surprisingly leading the robberies, the drama is seriously dark but also thoughtful and addictive.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The goal isn’t wholesale replacement of traditional investments but rather thoughtful inclusion to improve long-term outcomes.
    Rick Unser, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The paddles would be situated 180 degrees with relation to one another, so the reflective sides point in opposite directions.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The product has nine light-reflective shades and is infused with 85 percent skincare ingredients, the company tells me.
    Rachel Burchfield, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Indeed, Devonté Hynes, on his fifth studio LP as Blood Orange, manages to make life’s contemplative moments seem urgent, celestial, and rehabilitative.
    Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
  • This is where a contemplative approach to leadership is most valuable.
    Big Think, Big Think, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The video begins with Grint's pensive walk home from prison after serving time for stalking, and images of Sheeran flood his memory and sight.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Her pensive, probing Symphony in C-Sharp Minor had never been performed until the conductor Debora Waldman took it up and recorded it for Bru Zane.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Enyedi has often made meditative cinema, but here her restraint in some sequences verges on suffocating.
    Leila Latif, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Never through excess or ostentation, but through quiet discipline — a meditative expression of grace.
    Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Ruminative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ruminative. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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