reflect (on or upon)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reflect (on or upon)
Verb
  • In total, the seizure weighed approximately 2,500 lbs., officials said.
    Christina Coulter, People.com, 15 July 2025
  • The post didn’t mention the death of Tomlinson’s One Direction bandmate Liam Payne in October 2024, but that’s quite likely weighing heavily on him as well.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2025
Verb
  • The Rafael Devers blockbuster is probably the biggest deal that will go down, but the temptation is there to ponder other earthshaking possibilities, no matter how remote.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 11 July 2025
  • Viewing the team’s three-year stint here as an audition of sorts, officials have pondered if the local enthusiasm for baseball could help prove the Sacramento region as a welcome home for MLB.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2025
Verb
  • Perry last played metro Phoenix in 2018 when Witness: The Tour hit Glendale for a night at what's now called Desert Diamond Arena, where the singer reminisced about her childhood in the Valley.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 9 July 2025
  • Grohl’s lengthy statement reminisces about encountering Nate Mendel for the first time on Thanksgiving in 1994, and how that chance meeting resulted in the birth of the Foo Fighters.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2025
Verb
  • Jurors began deliberating on Monday, June 30, after hearing seven weeks of trial testimony.
    Lauryn Overhultz , Maria Paronich, FOXNews.com, 8 July 2025
  • In just a few weeks the convention will gather in Dallas for the 2025 SBC annual meeting and is expected to deliberate over convention finances and an ongoing debate about Southern Baptist doctrinal belief and convention governance.
    Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 4 July 2025
Verb
  • The researchers’ proof-of-concept exploit was able to tamper with deep neural network models used in machine learning for things like autonomous driving, healthcare applications, and medical imaging for analyzing MRI scans.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 14 July 2025
  • Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio analyzed more than a decade’s worth of data, examining over 134,000 cases of children under 6 who accidentally ingested nicotine through products like vapes, gums, and lozenges.
    Jeffrey Kopp, CNN Money, 14 July 2025
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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 19 Jul. 2025.

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