"say to oneself" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "says to oneself",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "saying to oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "said to oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "said to oneself",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To say (a statement) aloud without any audience; to say while talking to oneself."
      ],
      "id": "en-say_to_oneself-en-verb-mbZsBIj4",
      "links": [
        [
          "talking to oneself",
          "talk to oneself"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To say (a statement) aloud without any audience; to say while talking to oneself."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:",
          "text": "\"The Northern Heights at last,\" you say to yourself, hastily closing the carriage window because the Yorkshire coal used by the Eastern Region and its predecessors makes their tunnels more sulphurous than any we know.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To think (a statement); to reflect (that)."
      ],
      "id": "en-say_to_oneself-en-verb-UUo-OC2E",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To think (a statement); to reflect (that)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "10 90",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to think a statement",
          "word": "se dire"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "say to oneself"
}

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    {
      "form": "says to oneself",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "saying to oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "said to oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "said to oneself",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "say<,,said> to oneself"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To say (a statement) aloud without any audience; to say while talking to oneself."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "talking to oneself",
          "talk to oneself"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To say (a statement) aloud without any audience; to say while talking to oneself."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with quotations",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:",
          "text": "\"The Northern Heights at last,\" you say to yourself, hastily closing the carriage window because the Yorkshire coal used by the Eastern Region and its predecessors makes their tunnels more sulphurous than any we know.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To think (a statement); to reflect (that)."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To think (a statement); to reflect (that)."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to think a statement",
      "word": "se dire"
    }
  ],
  "word": "say to oneself"
}