as in to grind
to reduce to fine particles
the dentist was in the habit of mulling the mercury amalgam in the palm of his hand
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Recent Examples of mull
Seema Mehta,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
Jillian Mason, of Blue Springs, mulled the incident while supervising a happy youth at the Green Street playground on Monday afternoon.
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Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
8 June 2026
Blake took this season off to decompress and mull over his next move after mutually agreeing to step down as Kings GM last spring.
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Pierre Lebrun,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
Nuggets team president and KSE vice chairman Josh Kroenke was on the competition committee that mulled over various solutions to the years-long tanking epidemic.
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Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
2 June 2026
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Verb
In Congress and other positions, Becerra earned a reputation as a cerebral, analytical politician who would fully commit to his positions after taking time to mull them over.
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Seema Mehta,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
Jillian Mason, of Blue Springs, mulled the incident while supervising a happy youth at the Green Street playground on Monday afternoon.
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Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
8 June 2026
Blake took this season off to decompress and mull over his next move after mutually agreeing to step down as Kings GM last spring.
—
Pierre Lebrun,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
Nuggets team president and KSE vice chairman Josh Kroenke was on the competition committee that mulled over various solutions to the years-long tanking epidemic.
—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
2 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mull
Verb
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So Norway’s chefs brought their own coffee beans and grind every morning.
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If tension surfaces in a chat or client meeting, ground yourself by restating the facts, then suggest a next step everyone can accept.
Noun
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Hilary Duff is a duff-initely sad about her relationship with sister Haylie.
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The Colorado vet wristed a rebound past goaltender Kevin Lankinen from the left face-off circle with 32 seconds left in the first period — a score that got the Avs off their collective duffs and onto the scoreboard.
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The heart-pounding encounter ended with the calf reunited with its mother, dramatic photos on a cellphone — and the couple continuing on to catch brook trout.
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Dansby Swanson hit three home runs, including a grand slam, Michael Conforto homered twice and the Chicago Cubs pounded the San Diego Padres 23-3 on Wednesday.
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At Walhalla Glades, the carbon instead sat within silicate-rich sediment.
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The results showed that even after weeks of biological growth and sediment buildup, which heavily obscured the test targets, the system successfully identified every single weapon.
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The team’s findings suggest that crushing concrete and exposing it to air during recycling or shallow burial could dramatically improve its ability to immobilize radioactive contaminants.
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The vineyard’s primary business is growing and crushing grapes to produce bulk wine for these buyers, some of which are also managing the Canadian market loss.
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The valley floor is silt and loess left by the ice-age Missoula Floods, the glacial-lake megafloods that repeatedly drowned the region.
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The Hansen Dam Aquatic Center pool was constructed in 1999 in a $15-million project to replace a previous pool in the area that was filled with silt.
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Bryson Stott's three-run homer highlighted Philadelphia's eight-run outburst in the ninth inning and the Phillies rallied to beat the Washington Nationals 14-9 on Tuesday night.
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Rather than be benched, Devers batted cleanup, overcame an 0-for-3 start, and singled up the middle in the seventh to score Bryce Eldridge, who narrowly beat a tag at the plate for a 3-1 lead.
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Freshman Ben Smith became the first NCAA outdoor champion for Oregon in the shot put since Dean Crouser (1982) with a marl of 69-0 1/2.
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Its striking blue-green hues and clarity—allowing visibility of 20 to 30 feet—are due to minimal organic runoff and calcium-rich marl sediment from its glacial origins.
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“Mull.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mull. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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