reflect (on or upon)

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Verb
  • Continue reading … LEGAL LOOPHOLE – Luigi Mangione returns to court as judge weighs defense motion to dismiss death penalty charge.
    , FOXNews.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Eventually a team from TPWD arrived with a tanker truck to carry the fish back to the Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens, where all the Legacy Lunkers (largemouth bass weighing 14 pounds or more) are brought to carry on the state’s selective breeding program.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 29 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Take the time to ponder outdated habits or emotional scars.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Advertisement China has long pondered surgical strikes against Taiwan’s leadership, though any such move is likely to be self-defeating, given the island is a sustained democracy.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 5 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • But the price tag will rise by another $10 billion, the completion date will be pushed off to 2050, and people will begin to fondly reminisce about how competently the Big Dig project was run.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 31 Dec. 2025
  • This game is a beautiful way to reminisce and swap funny stories from the past year.
    Mary Alice Russell, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • In October 2014, MSHSL began deliberating on how to accommodate transgender athletes.
    Jordan Shearer, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The judge will then deliberate whether the operation should be halted, at least temporarily.
    Philip Wang, Time, 26 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The system can also analyze images to identify items and shop for similar products within a set budget.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
  • What researchers discovered inside iOS apps Security researchers at Cybernews, a cybersecurity research firm, analyzed the code of more than 156,000 iPhone apps.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Jan. 2026
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“Reflect (on or upon).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reflect%20%28on%20or%20upon%29. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.

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