0 past simple and past participle of ponder
1 to think carefully about something, especially for a noticeable length of time:
Various commentators have pondered the need for training standards, credentials, "certification" exams, and malpractice insurance for ethicists engaged in clinical consultation.
We have pondered the problem only to come up with the suggestion of retaining the present, pleasant waterfront as is.
After having read the list once, he pondered upon the fact that, usually, this vowel is not pronounced in such position.
Various philosophers have pondered the question of how self-deception is possible.
Discussion in this section has also pondered the relationship between personal and historical identities.
For centuries, scholars pondered the nature of early word learning.
Back in 1992, we pondered the relative importance - in the dictionary-making process - of lexicographers' intuitions about language as opposed to what the empirical evidence tells us.
It is a deeply pondered account of a scheme of gender symbolism and body language which throws an intense light on upper-class society between 1500 and 1660.
