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- noun Plural form of
ruminator .
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They're also more likely to become unnerved by stressful events: for instance, Nolen-Hoeksema found that residents of San Francisco who self-identified as ruminators showed significantly more depressive symptoms after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
Wired Top Stories Jonah Lehrer 2011
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As a result, ruminators are less able to plan for the future than others and less able to follow through on plans.
The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008
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As a result, ruminators are less able to plan for the future than others and less able to follow through on plans.
The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008
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As a result, ruminators are less able to plan for the future than others and less able to follow through on plans.
The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008
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As a result, ruminators are less able to plan for the future than others and less able to follow through on plans.
The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008
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For such purposes of mere aesthetic nourishment Goethe always milked other minds, -- if minds those ruminators and digesters of antiquity into asses 'milk may be called.
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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Authors of the study said that the findings of shared environmental influences on intrusive thinking, sleep reactivity to stress and insomnia confirm previous research showing that it may be beneficial for people with higher reactivity to stress and or ruminators to try to modify their environments to minimize their stress levels.
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Contrast this with ruminators, who perseverate on their feelings without taking action.
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Œk., 256 seq.) remarks, that it would be a great mistake, and it is the mistake of the majority, to consider what has been achieved or striven for in the present, as the absolute _non plus ultra_, and thus to look upon all future generations as called upon to play the parts of apes and ruminators; a remark worthy to be taken to heart.
System der volkswirthschaft. English Wilhelm Roscher 1855
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"'Tis time to change our natur's," he observed to the brother of his wife, who was rarely far from his elbow; "and to become ruminators, instead of people used to the fare of Christians and free men.
The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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