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pondering

verb

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of ponder

  2. An act of rumination or cogitation.

    • Now all his ponderings, however excursive, wheeled round Isabel as their center; and back to her they came again from every excursion; and again derived some new, small germs for wonderment.
    • Alas, it looked yesterday, when the Legislature returned to business, as if Premier Dalton McGuinty's peculiar maunderings and ponderings of the past several weeks risk making him just that.

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at pondering. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at pondering. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at pondering

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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