wondered (about)

verb

past tense of wonder (about)
as in disagreed (with)

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  1. doubted
  2. discounted
  3. disputed
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  • The long delay before Davis was charged did not mean Las Vegas investigators doubted his culpability, DiGiacomo said.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Bahdanau quietly doubted their potential to achieve anything like human-level intelligence, but his adviser, the computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, and the postdoc on the project, Kyunghyun Cho, were believers.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026
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  • Korean face masks are discounted, too— from the Biodance Bio-Collagen Real Deep Mask at $13, to Medicube’s crowd-favorite Pink Collagen Gel Mask at a jaw-dropping $15.
    — Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Beyond the holy grail Bigger Carry-On, several other popular Away pieces are discounted for Prime Day.
    — Madison Flager, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
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  • No agents died in the real-life incident, and whether Good’s car ever posed a threat to her killer, Jonathan Ross, remains widely disputed.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Guilfoyle's team publicly disputed the authenticity of text messages Deters shared with multiple news outlets, including CBS News.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
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“Wondered (about).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wondered%20%28about%29. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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