"pondering" meaning in English

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      "form": "ponderings",
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          "text": "Alas, it looked yesterday, when the Legislature returned to business, as if Premier Dalton McGuinty's peculiar maunderings and ponderings of the past several weeks risk making him just that.",
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        "An act of rumination or cogitation."
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        {
          "word": "consideration"
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        {
          "word": "deliberation"
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  "word": "pondering"
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