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rumination
  1. The act of ruminating; i.e. chewing cud and other ruminants.
  2. (figuratively) Deep thought or consideration.
  3. (psychology) Negative cyclic thinking; persistent and recurrent worrying or brooding.
  4. (pathology) An eating disorder characterized by repetitive regurgitation of small amounts of food from the stomach.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Proving to be of this bloodline, Pamuk engages in much rumination on the origins of westernization and the adoption of the novel genre.”
      “We are observing activity and rumination of cows on pasture and in winter housing systems to evaluate the fertility and health of grazing cattle.”
      “The forms of both concertos are quite free and tend towards a pattern of orchestral tuttis interspersed with cadenza-like periods of rumination.”
ruminant
  1. An artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud, such as a cow or deer.
ruminating
ruminator
  1. One who ruminates; one who meditates or reflects.
  2. Examples:
    1. “If you are thinking about the problem for more than five minutes, there is a good chance that you are a ruminator.”
      “I was a master of circling, a pacer, a ruminator, caught in my neural loops.”
      “Thus, an ambivalently attached person and the ruminator may seek out help but focus on their emotional elements of their distress.”
ruminatings
ruminations
  1. plural of rumination
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Most of the film consists of religious ruminations couched in arch dialogue.”
      “Her solipsistic ruminations signal a true diva's self-absorption, yet they also have a sneaky evocative power.”
      “Such garbled ruminations, however, were my very first undoing, for instanter I had stepped on vicious air and landed a good three feet below.”
ruminators
  1. plural of ruminator
  2. Examples:
    1. “When in a depressed mood, ruminators generate fewer and lower quality solutions to their problems than when they are not in a depressed mood.”
      “The shattering implications of Bellesiles' argument for scholars, policy-makers, and ruminators upon the national character are clearly evident, but he leaves them unstated.”
ruminants
  1. plural of ruminant
  2. Examples:
    1. “Accurate and precise estimates of forage energy content are required to formulate diets properly for lactating dairy cows and other ruminants.”
      “The stomach of the mouse deer is three chambered and these animals are ruminants.”
      “So mammals are unable to digest cellulose, except some ruminants that have cellulase-secreting bacteria in their rumens.”
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