1
as in considerations
a careful weighing of the reasons for or against something
I'll give your request some thought and then let you know what my decision is
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as in ideas
something imagined or pictured in the mind
I just had a thought: what if we both pitched in and bought him one big present instead of two smaller presents for his birthday?
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Recent Examples of thoughts
Deliberate mind wandering, where people give themselves the freedom to drift off-subject, allowing their thoughts to take a different course.
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Liz Regalia, Parents, 28 Oct. 2025
Her grief lives with her, but now her thoughts are more organized in voice memos, notes in an app on her phone, in a Word doc.
—Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
The jury can also issue a report offering its thoughts, meaning prosecutors would then choose what step to take next.
—Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
Maks Chmerkovskiy is not holding back his thoughts on this season of Dancing with the Stars.
—Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
She was asked about her thoughts on Americans who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.
—James Factora, Them., 28 Oct. 2025
Some didn’t respond, others outright declined comment, while four of them shared their thoughts, which are below.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
In such circumstances, thoughts, dreams, plans—even grief—collapse into a single instinct.
—Ghada Abdulfattah, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
While this seems like a lovely getaway, the popular Facebook page Zillow Gone Wild has mixed thoughts.
—Tj MacIas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2025
Liz Regalia, Parents, 28 Oct. 2025
Her grief lives with her, but now her thoughts are more organized in voice memos, notes in an app on her phone, in a Word doc.
—Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
The jury can also issue a report offering its thoughts, meaning prosecutors would then choose what step to take next.
—Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
Maks Chmerkovskiy is not holding back his thoughts on this season of Dancing with the Stars.
—Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
She was asked about her thoughts on Americans who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.
—James Factora, Them., 28 Oct. 2025
Some didn’t respond, others outright declined comment, while four of them shared their thoughts, which are below.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
In such circumstances, thoughts, dreams, plans—even grief—collapse into a single instinct.
—Ghada Abdulfattah, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
While this seems like a lovely getaway, the popular Facebook page Zillow Gone Wild has mixed thoughts.
—Tj MacIas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thoughts
Noun
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But Deacon dismissed security considerations over Chinese applicants.—
Didi Kirsten Tatlow,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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That means adding manufacturability metrics and lifecycle considerations into the AI’s goal, not treating them as an afterthought.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Oct. 2025
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The shareholder meetings give the youngest Browns in the sixth and seventh generations, and their distant cousins, a chance to meet and bounce ideas off one another.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Oct. 2025
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Few characters are as beloved as those from The Wizard of Oz (1939), making for reliable costume ideas year after year.—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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After deliberations that stretched out over two meetings this week, Milpitas City Council narrowly voted Friday to ask Councilmember Evelyn Chua to apologize for an incident that nearly broke state law and allegedly breached several city codes.—
Luis Melecio-Zambrano,
Mercury News,
25 Oct. 2025
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In August, however, the hard-liners began to win out, according to someone with knowledge of the Administration’s internal deliberations.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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But Interview With the Vampire set a precedent for transformative TV from the Immortal Universe, its narrative and visual audacity subverting adaptation tropes and genre storytelling by challenging viewers’ notions of immortality, sexuality, and destiny.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
25 Oct. 2025
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Contrary to the previous notions about our youth, their inherent power and unidentified skillsets could put them in a position to change their own lives, with the proper guidance.—
Essence,
Essence,
24 Oct. 2025
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The video showed dozens of videos and pictures sent to her, all featuring people eating McDonald's fries as a show of solidarity.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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Go through a corn maze, sip on apple cider, and take silly pictures with the cardboard cutouts.—
Kylie Petty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Oct. 2025
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Many people have framed the rise of Red Shambhala as a direct response to Vril and Agartha, two concepts that have become a fixture of alt-right memes in the last year.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
24 Oct. 2025
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Heading into the playoffs, the Blue Jays rely on these principles not as concepts on paper, but as daily practices that sustain performance under pressure.—
Karl Moore,
Forbes.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Micro Over Macro The algorithm trained teams to chase macro reach (virality, follower counts, massive impressions), but in the post-algorithm era, that scale no longer converts.—
Sam Saideman,
Rolling Stone,
28 Oct. 2025
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Throughout Earth's history, the direction of the planet's magnetic field has flipped hundreds of times, leaving subtle impressions in rocks.—
DINO GRANDONI THE WASHINGTON POST,
Arkansas Online,
26 Oct. 2025
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So this was quite a departure from traditional conceptions of the subject.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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The hierarchy of money is present in both conceptions, it is not spelled out explicitly in either conception.—
Vipin Bharathan,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Thoughts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thoughts. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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