: meditation
My musing and writings on this issue do not come from the groves of academe.—
Herbert S. White
Herbert S. WhiteExamples 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
More than any other change, this one act cemented Twitter’s new identity as a right-wing media platform that acted as an extension of Musk’s own political beliefs, paranoid suspicions, midnight musings and personal interests.
—Jacob Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Hollywood actor Henry Golding also spent years penning words of wisdom from strangers on the fly, finding power behind the random musings of locals to coveted writers.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
Yet the essayistic musings in Sonia and Sunny read more like armchair postcolonialism than a major writer laying muscular claim to the novel as form.
—Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
Trump has notably refrained from terminating Fed Chair Jerome Powell despite months of musings.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Musing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/musing. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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