Ruminating

As I was ruminating on how we got to an ugly situation as a nation.

Dear Night Shift: A good friend of mine recently recounted how she copes with her elderly mother’s ruminating on one topic.

EEG recordings revealed that reindeer's brainwaves during rumination resemble the brain waves present during non-REM sleep, and these brainwave patterns suggest that the reindeer are more "rested" after ruminating.

A dinner date here or there is nice, but we often spend this time ruminating on motherhood and all of its aforementioned challenges.

The trouble is you realise you have watched a to-be Youtube highlight classic and a ruminating slow rumble of breathtaking defense, only after staring at hours of metronomic rallies, which go past one after another.

Dis-entangling ourselves from these sub-conversations is what happens when we’re ruminating, have revenge fantasies, feel anxiety, numb out, or deaden ourselves.

Jake was very down during this time, “thinking lots of depressing thoughts” and ruminating on the past.

Even after the workday ends, many of us feel a compulsion to continue and ruminating about work-related problems, worrying about how we will get everything done.

Tom floats to his nest, ruminating on what he believes is the most important part of a piece of art.

Wheeldon, who in the lead up to this match has found himself ruminating on lineups, formations, and plan As, Bs and Cs from the very moment he opens his eyes in the morning, says there's no secret sauce to winning.

But I could see that he didn’t feel totally safe, and he was worried that he would spend the night ruminating without a little help.

If a thought repeats itself over and over again, you are ruminating.

My local preacher isn’t much for ruminating on the news of the day in his sermons, but he had some choice unkind words during Sunday’s Prayer for the People for those who think Thoughts and Prayers are a sufficient substitute for Doing Something.

The maneuver had us ruminating on how a hangdog career public servant had struck a blow for experienced politicians — just as experienced politicians were getting crushed at the polls.

However, it is established practice to refer for an x-ray regardless; thought to be better than missing a real fracture while ruminating on possibilities that it could instead be a sprain.

Much paper has been consumed by historians of science ruminating on this strange and somewhat unclear idea.