To mull over — possibly from the Middle English for “to crumble” — is to carefully consider.
Example (as used by John Wood today): “[Merv] Griffin was mulling over game show ideas when his wife noted that there had been no successful ‘question and answer’ shows since the quiz show scandals.”
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