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dwell on

verb

  1. intr, preposition to think, speak, or write at length

    it's no good dwelling on your misfortunes

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Idioms and Phrases

Also, dwell upon . Linger over; ponder, speak or write at length. For example, Let's not dwell on this topic too long; we have a lot to cover today . [c. 1500]
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Benn says he has been "cleared three times" and is reluctant to dwell on the past.

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Prosecutors, he said, had dwelled on the lurid details of the affair, but that wasn’t evidence of murder.

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Perhaps Johnson’s own decade-long struggle to make “The Actor,” only his second film, inspired him to dwell on the value Paul puts on being an artist.

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“It’s really hard to build an impenetrable wall against our fears, but you don’t have to latch onto those fears and dwell on them either,” he added.

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“They had a poor understanding of the long, long history of fires, and the long ecological necessity of them. The developers didn’t want to dwell on the hazards. They saw fires as freak events.”

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