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• s  deeply or seriously thoughtful;
• s  showing pensive sadness

• The Traders on the floor of the Stock Exchange looked pensive when the market opened after the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that one million jobs have been shed.
• The great Australian cricketer was pensive before he answered the question about Test matches going out of fashion.
• Sometimes pensive, sometimes boastful, sometimes displaying a rare humility, the presidential candidate made a final pitch to his followers.

• brooding
• broody
• contemplative
• meditative
• musing
• pondering
• reflective
• ruminative
• wistful

News & Articles

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• Top agent Parker pulls no punches
  Eugene Parker, the mysterious NFL agent, was an hour into a rare interview when a specific word triggered a pensive tone. He had been discussing whether contract negotiations were a science or an art.
  June 10, 2013 - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
• Family spotlight: "Gorilla Forest," "Wind & Weather"
  At the new $11 million gorilla exhibit at the Como Zoo in St. Paul, one of the three female gorillas had a pensive pose near the observation glass.
  June 6, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

Quotes

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• Marlene Jennings in The Gazette (Montreal)
  Jennings, who has known Dion personally for more than a decade, said "he sounded very quiet, very reflective and pensive and listening" when she spoke to him. "There's a real sense and hope that he's thinking seriously about his future, that...
• Jewel Taylor in BBC News
  Mr Taylor is in a very reflective and pensive mood. This is his whole life we're talking about,Jewel Taylor, a serving senator in Liberia, told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.
• Robert Hoyzer in Deutsche Welle
  I have never bet on a game I have refereed,Hoyzer told the Bild newspaper on Monday. "The accusations have left me pensive, uneasy and dismayed. I cannot comprehend them, and also cannot understand that my refereeing colleagues could think...