stewing

Professionally, though he has been stewing over more recent events.

If it’s a vegetable, I’m using it from seed to stem — pickling or fermenting some parts, stewing other parts and saving its cooking liquid for another use.

For a little while on Monday, he did not say yes to any of the jobs he was offered, stewing over whether they were appealing, senior enough or might box him in too much politically.

But Schofield and his friends weren’t stewing or scanning the latest polling averages on Sunday.

“Either it’s Donald Trump, sitting in there, stewing, stewing over his enemies list; or me, with your help, working for you, checking off my to-do list,” Harris said at a recent rally.