as in to contemplate
to give serious and careful thought to
yet another senator chewing over the idea of running for president
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European officials have chewed over how to nurture startups that might, one day, offer the kind of rapid, inexpensive communications alternatives that Starlink did in Ukraine.
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Samanth Subramanian, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2023
Milbank Quarterly The Big Think The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf posits an interesting question for readers to chew over: Is racial color blindness possible in personal interactions?
—Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
Part of me eases into its flagship restaurant’s face-value pleasures, yet another part keeps my eyes on the exit sign, chewing over the context in which the restaurant exists in the larger world.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
The outlines of the Disney-DeSantis fight have been well chewed over at this point.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2023
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Samanth Subramanian, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2023
Milbank Quarterly The Big Think The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf posits an interesting question for readers to chew over: Is racial color blindness possible in personal interactions?
—Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
Part of me eases into its flagship restaurant’s face-value pleasures, yet another part keeps my eyes on the exit sign, chewing over the context in which the restaurant exists in the larger world.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
The outlines of the Disney-DeSantis fight have been well chewed over at this point.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2023
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