thinking
/ˈθɪŋkɪŋ/ noun A1- The action or process of using one's mind to consider or reason about something.
- A thought. · What is your thinking on this subject?
Plural thinkings
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I cannot help thinking it would have been a great pity to have served him that trick you were planning yesterday.”
Many crows and other birds flew into the cornfield, but as soon as they saw me they flew away again, thinking I was a Munchkin; and this pleased me and made me feel that I was quite an important person.
“True; but that gentleman being absent, his secretary, by his orders, opened his letters; thinking this one of importance, he sent for me, but not finding me, took upon himself to give the necessary orders for arresting the accused party.”
Dorothy was thinking so earnestly as they walked along that she did not notice when the Scarecrow stumbled into a hole and rolled over to the side of the road.
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