reconsider
The review will involve a fundamental reconsideration of their priorities.
They requested reconsideration of the proposals.
The negotiations prompted reconsideration of the decision.

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Thinking and contemplating
a brown studyidiom
agonize
agonize over/about something
beard-stroking
bethink
harbour
heart-searching
hit on/upon something
I/we'll (have to) seeidiom
in the cold light of dayidiom
introspect
navel
reckon
reflection
reweigh
rumination
run through someone's mind/headidiom
scratch your headidiom
self-contemplation
weigh

reconsideration | Business English

reconsideration
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ˌriːkənˌsɪdərˈeɪʃən/us
LAW
the act of thinking about changing a decision, especially in a court of law:
The court refused the appeal for reconsideration.
The lawyers recommend that we seek reconsideration.
The company will appeal to the Board for a reconsideration of its conclusions.

Examples of reconsideration

reconsideration
The manner of a person's death will often lead to a reconsideration of a life - who and what they were.
Although statutory and practical issues led to reconsideration of redemption payments, a sense of crisis added urgency to the project.
The government's reconsideration of incomes, employment and profits, released at the end of 1990, professed a more open strategy on competition, remuneration and private accumulation.
The chapters generally aim to and succeed in presenting some novel angle, addressing some important phenotypic question, or provoking reconsideration of our assumptions.
Despite these achievements, several issues that are worthy of reconsideration should also be mentioned.
The museums sector has also become proactive in encouraging a reconsideration of dichotomous histories.
The incident presents an opportunity to ponder if a reconsideration is in order.
A new publication, almost a new genre, seemed to be a necessary complement to archival discoveries and subsequent historiographical reconsiderations.
The first step in overcoming the dominance of such resource-based thinking may be a reconsideration of our understanding of health.
The use of technology by marginalised writers brings in its wake a reconsideration of the compositional process by which a finished work is achieved.
The question of the status and rights of friends deserves reconsideration and requires some systematisation.
Everything was to be open to reconsideration in the cold light of value.
Further reconsideration of research questions, analytical techniques and interpretative frameworks is needed in order to put the ecological perspective into practice.
Although the possibility of such a relationship made intuitive good sense, its absence dictates reconsideration of the underlying premise.
While such an inversion invites reconsideration of musical audibility and film narrative, video work, when installed, also challenges the notions of screen space and realism.
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