musing

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noun

mus·ing ˈmyü-ziŋ

Synonyms of musing next

: meditation

My musing and writings on this issue do not come from the groves of academe.—

Herbert S. White

musing

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adjective

: thoughtfully abstracted : meditative

musingly

ˈmyü-ziŋ-lē

adverb

Examples of musing in a Sentence

Adjective he was clearly in a musing mood, and did not feel like talking just then

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Noun

Quickly, the women realize they’ve been lied to, thanks to a blueberry candle, and are forced into Mr. Reed’s tense musings and sadistic games for a chance to escape. —

Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024 Protracted descriptions of drinking coffee or shopping at a grocery store are interspersed with philosophical musings about the search for meaning, which, when mixed with the uncanny, become genuinely unsettling. —

The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024 Just Beyond the Light (available to pre-order now) will mix bits of memoir and philosophical and artistic musings. —

Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2024 Kelly was once a respected journalist at Fox News, one of the network’s occasional examples of a more fair-and-balanced news person, as opposed to the far-right musings of Sean Hannity and the like. —

Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for musing