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The word "Pensive" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe a state of deep or serious thought, often with a hint of sadness or wistfulness. Example: "She sat by the window, lost in pensive contemplation of her past."
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Pensive
adjective
Having the appearance of deep, often melancholic, thinking.
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"They appeared pensive and spent hours alone thinking to themselves, and wouldn't leave the mosque.
George Osborne, flanking the prime minister, looked pensive throughout, like the lookout man in a post office robbery.
Mr Scalfaro is small, with a bald dome and pensive air.
The final scene shows Mr Fanning today, standing on a beach looking pensive.
In addition Manish Tewari, a bright spokesman for the party, now gets a junior minister post.In all, 22 ministers, 17 of them new, were sworn in by India's newish president, Pranab Mukherjee, and watched closely by a pensive Sonia Gandhi, the Congress president.
They each said "Ohhhh", looked pensive, and then nodded in agreement (though the woman in the fuzzy hat was nodding continuously anyway).Chrystal had a question about her 401(k).
It was a mistake, she says, to form a coalition with the Conservative Party.Members are "pensive", says Mark Pack, co-editor of an influential Lib Dem blog.
Photographs, too, grace the booklet, including one pensive shot of Woody Guthrie lost in the words of a song, playing a guitar that's pasted with a slogan he made famous: "The Machine Kills Fascists".
Rustling with Kalashnikovs ReprintsNassar, a young mourner who came to Cairo's Abbaseya cathedral in his Sunday best, stood pensive at the rear of the kilometre-long queue to pay respects to the departed pope.
In the past, only one Social Democrat, Willy Brandt, has held both jobs simultaneously (from 1969 to 1974) and he, a pensive and often depressive character, had little of Mr Schröder's famed ability to snuff out rivals.
THERE was jazzy lighting, brutally loud music and screens showing Ed chatting, Ed accosting shoppers in a grey jersey, Ed looking pensive on a train.
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