Verb (used with object) : to contemplate the stars. ,to contemplate a difficult problem. ,to contemplate buying a new car.    From Dictionary.com. 

( "Woori") on the terms contemplated in the Securities Purchase.    From Wordnik.com.  [News] Reference

‘This was a step contemplated from the beginning,’ one aide said.    From Wordnik.com.  [P2p war continues] Reference

John Rain contemplated the amber hue of his Talisker, then looked at Delilah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer] Reference

Already the list of "little" things that have been accomplished or are contemplated is quite impressive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle Against Rising Prices] Reference

Ophrah -- That no idolatrous use was in view, nor any divisive course from Shiloh contemplated, is manifest from Jud 8: 33.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

He answered that the general strike was included in the term 'mass action,' but that the word contemplated other methods as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Conspiracy] Reference

This was a step contemplated from the beginning,’ one aide said.    From Wordnik.com.  [INDUCE chases Marybeth Peters] Reference

TI survivors disagree that the operation is only contemplated, that is, not happening.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

It was not a current coin contemplated as being in circulation at the passage of the act of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference

No word could have been selected with equal felicity, to convey the idea contemplated by a federal system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-18] Reference

Should Iraq be included in any kind of contemplated military action?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2001] Reference

Kilkenny said he "contemplated" who possible replacements might be.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Register-Guard: RSS Feeds] Reference

He said his budget "contemplated" the downturn and could absorb the tax loss.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

A course of action is being contemplated which is not the case at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

He says, "For 40 years, I ` ve kind of contemplated on the origins of life, and I ` ve asked myself, where does thought come from?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2007] Reference

Matisse turned his eye outward and contemplated nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stars Of Summer] Reference

Not long ago, I again contemplated a return to the day shift.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burning The Midnight Oil] Reference

By her bedside, he pondered his own future and contemplated Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'm Real. Really.] Reference

They were rather alone, however, as they contemplated their predicament.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sex, Lies And The President] Reference

Mostly because of Iraq, he has for the first time contemplated resigning.    From Wordnik.com.  [A QUESTION OF WHEN] Reference

At the time, he could not have contemplated the price he would later pay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton V. Paula Jones] Reference

At the moment, Gates and the chairman said that was not being contemplated.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Give Us a Chance'] Reference

It is revealing that when the young McCain contemplated dropping out of the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraq: Friends at War] Reference

Continuing the negotiations from the point they were left cannot be seriously contemplated either.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Only Way Out] Reference

It will challenge the next president in ways that none of the candidates has probably yet contemplated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Shopping Spree, R.I.P.] Reference

Some executives at Volvo's parent, Ford, have even contemplated putting a design studio inside an 18-wheeler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Styling With Digital Clay] Reference

Actually, the modest reforms contemplated by the White House and congressional leaders aren't really that modest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death Rattle For Health Reform] Reference

Tuesday he fled to his remote estate in northeastern Argentina, where, alone, he contemplated his imminent arrest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death Of An Untouchable] Reference

Looking out the back window, he contemplated a gray wall with a stack of lumber and a dead tree leaning against it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Disembodied Director] Reference

And while he says his candidacy is a quest inspired by his recovery, he contemplated running for president as early as 1981.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 'Uncandidate': How Pure Is Paul?] Reference

It's an excruciating moment -- even if you don't know that Cates holed up in her house for five years and contemplated suicide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Directors Make Stars From Scratch] Reference

He contemplated the new government, which will introduce Islamic law but not, he suggests, the radical version of his old nemesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Showdown In The Capital] Reference

Few publications have contemplated (not to say agonized over) their evolving position on the war in Iraq as honestly and as publicly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tall Tales?] Reference