ruminate

ruminate about (something)

To give great consideration to something; to ponder on or think about something very deeply. We sat ruminating about various ways to improve our business model when Janet suddenly came up with a brilliant idea. Well, your review has certainly given me plenty to ruminate about.
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ruminate on (something)

To give great consideration to something; to ponder on or think about something very deeply. We sat ruminating on various ways to improve our business model when Janet suddenly came up with a brilliant idea. Well, your review has certainly given me plenty to ruminate on.
See also: on, ruminate
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

ruminate about something

 and ruminate on something
to ponder and think about something. (Alludes to a cow, relaxing and chewing its cud, as if it is thinking.) He sat, ruminating about the events of the day, humming and eating peanuts. Let me ruminate on this a little bit.
See also: ruminate
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • a/the feel of (something)
  • (I) wouldn't (do something) if I were you
  • a straw will show which way the wind blows
  • a crack at (someone or something)
  • all right
  • (you) wanna make something of it?
  • all for the best
  • a thing of the past
  • a slew of (something)
  • a bird in the hand
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Neumeier ruminates on scholarly mysteries surrounding historical figures in his ballets, as in Nijinsky, in which he explores Romola Nijinsky as both a sustaining and fatally destructive force in her husband's life.
The Holy Spirit ruminates within and about us with sighs too deep for words.
In addition to his thoughts on all his failed relationships, the narrator ruminates on, among other things, violence among the world's youth.
Cud are wads of undigested food that a cow regurgitates from its rumen and ruminates.
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Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton ruminates about philosophy.