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Rumination

In psychology, rumination is when you can't take your mind off of something, often a bitter or negative experience you had in the past, and it still continues to bother you. You try to combat these intrusive thoughts, but they keep coming back no matter how hard you try to push them out. Rumination can be anywhere from a few minutes to an entire hour.

This is often due to a lack of resolution/rectification towards the bitter experience, especially if you failed to take control of the situation.

Rumination can also be about future events or goals, especially a harmful, unhealthy and unrealistic goal that you want to pursue.

The more you ruminate, the deeper the hole you're digging for yourself. It is better to stop ruminating early, or else you might end up in a very unhealthy state, both mentally and physically.
Peter had plans to assemble his Ikea furniture today, but during the assembly his mind wandered off and he started to ruminate about his ex and how she "borrowed" his money but never returned it back, and afterwards broke up with him. He had all these malicious thoughts inside his head and wanted to execute them all, but couldn't get himself to for the sake of his sanity. Peter's rumination costed him an hour's worth of time.
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Rumi is the best most attractive guy you ever met. He makes friends easily and never fails to be there for you.
God I wish I was like Rumi. He just knows how to do everything.
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rumsfeld

v. To back out or resign under mounting scrutiny and/or criticism.
Having been caught in in a compromising situation with the office intern, Johnny Rumsfelded himself out of trouble by taking a job at another company.
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rumsey

Absolute Badass, The root of all that is good and awesome, Nickname for actual Men, Descriptive word for anything that is above average or anything truly awesome. Similar to using "tits" or "money" to describe something. Something truley glorious or amazing
That guy is a Rumsey among men. Man this awesome pizza is straight up Rumsey. I'm gonna have to Rumsey this place up.
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Ramsi

Awesome, mind-blowing, and/or brilliant.
When I think of how amazing it was, I can only think of one word: Ramsi.
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Rumsfeld

Cocky speaker who makes excessive use of redundancies and nonsensical statements and still comes across as someone who knows his shit.
His words have a peculiar hypnotic quality that after you hear him speak you suddenly feel the irresistible urge of bombing a few arab countries. He is a Rumsfeld.
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