Verb
take into consideration, have in view
Source: WordNetNo Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence. Yitzhak Rabin
Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?' Alison Gopnik
Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day. Emma Goldman
Oh, fine new friends you have-until They betray you. If the gods toy with you, cousin, it is for Their ends, not yours. Lois McMaster Bujold
What is more obscene: the idea that one can apologize for the hubris and deceit that is Obama and his health care, or the actual need some have for an apology from an entity so evil that he would toy with the lives of millions as though they were insects and he God? This is hard to tell. Ilana Mercer
The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake. Rachel Cusk