Definition of "ruminates" [ruminates]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ruminate. (verb)

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• "That I hate driving long distances because my brain ruminates on the things that make me feel like a failure and question who I am and who I want to be."
• "As Tyler sleeps, Carney ruminates on the science fiction aspects of their predicament, to Gullette's growing irritation."
• "Drawn from essays and speeches spanning the past 50 years, Mr. Hobsbawm's book ruminates on pre-Marxian socialism, the works of the Italian communist philosopher Antonio Gramsci, and a slew of internecine ideological battles that will be of interest mainly to academics and unreconstructed militants."