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Verb
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As the Moon moves into Capricorn and your 5th House of Creativity, your focus shifts toward making something real instead of just thinking about it.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
5 May 2026 -
Hoagland told me to stop thinking.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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One night, Jenna Wallace, a veterinarian in Hawaii who had worked with dolphins and orcas, but not with humpbacks, was reading about the whale in bed after a few glasses of wine.—
Jessica Camille Aguirre,
New Yorker,
2 May 2026
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Keep reading to shop more of my favorite petite spring staples from Quince.—
Tanya Sharma,
PEOPLE,
2 May 2026
Verb
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But even among the anchors that aren’t contemplating leaving TV for YouTube, the attraction of digital media is too irresistible to ignore.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
6 May 2026
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Or, put another way, savers contemplating a $15,000 deposit into this account now can expect to earn a little more than $1 per week on their funds over the next year.—
Matt Richardson,
CBS News,
6 May 2026
Verb
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Instead of obsessively over-rationalizing or avoiding, try making friends with that feeling.—
Goth Shakira
Contributing,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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While rationalizing deception is easy to do, developing the virtue of truthfulness is not.—
Katherine Moses,
The Conversation,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Philosophizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/philosophizing. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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