as in brooding (about or over)
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reasoning
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Every new advance from Anthropic’s breakthroughs in reasoning algorithms to cloud-scale automation makes the entire software ecosystem stronger.—
Milan Shetti,
Fortune,
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This is a form of reasoning typical to translators.—
Jan Steyn,
The Dial,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Speculating (about).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speculating%20%28about%29. Accessed 15 Mar. 2026.
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