cannot contemplate
Frequency: 6.99.1 per million words
to be unable or unwilling to think about something, often because it is too unpleasant
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- I simply cannot contemplate a world without my children in it.
- The company cannot contemplate the financial losses if the project fails.
- She could not contemplate a future where she wasn't a doctor.
- He cannot contemplate selling his family home; it has too many memories.
- The level of cruelty involved is something we cannot contemplate.
- For many people, they cannot contemplate living on such a small income.
- The government cannot contemplate the long-term effects of this policy.
- He was in such a state of shock that he could not contemplate what to do next.
- We cannot contemplate going back to the old way of doing things.
- The very idea of failure is something she cannot contemplate.