Definition of "ruminating" [ruminating]

• Present participle of ruminate. (verb)

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• "In his own way, Cuendet was a craftsman; and because Maigret was thinking at the same time about the fellows in the Rue La Fayette — that was what he called ruminating — he found the man slightly old-fashioned — like this restaurant, which would soon make way for a spick-and-span self-service counter."
• "Since then, his penchant for long-term ruminating has become obvious, most particularly with his decision on Afghanistan."
• "Psychologist types can tell me if anything specific is meant by "ruminating" - that is, if the term is used in your field to mean a kind of obsessive thinking and reviewing of thought - because otherwise, to us lay folks, ruminating just means thinking, reviewing."