brain waves

plural of brain wave

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Noun
  • The Manhattan district attorney’s office contends that there are no double jeopardy issues because neither of Mangione’s cases has gone to trial and because the state and federal prosecutions involve different legal theories.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The case boiled down to video of the incident and dueling theories by defense and prosecution experts on police use of force.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This flexible system allows performers to switch between hypotheses of how dinosaurs might have sounded.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Investigators initially had 12 hypotheses about what caused the deadly collapse, per The Miami Herald.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The newspaper reported at the time that Zinn has a criminal record dating back to 1989 that includes dozens of convictions for petty crimes such as criminal trespass, theft of services, interfering with a police officer and disturbing the peace.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Paige has open warrants in Middlesex County for malicious destruction of property, and has felony convictions in New York.
    Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more detailed analyses verify preliminary observations from the James Webb Space Telescope.
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
  • However, based on the most recent observations amassed by tools including the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), KY26 is much smaller than anticipated.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As demographic changes redefine the workforce, leaders must reorient themselves to interrogate their own mindsets, assumptions and lived experiences in order to lead and steward a workforce that looks, thinks and believes differently than the one they may have been trained to manage.
    Heather V. MacArthur, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The firm said Netflix has won the streaming wars with its strong content and has higher longer-term margin assumptions as its content generates more revenue.
    Sean Conlon, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • After hearing gunshots ring out in the middle of the night, residents soon feared two bears had been poached as speculations swirled, California wildlife officials say.
    Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In October 2020, more than two hundred years after the speculations of Michell, Laplace and von Soldner, a band of journalists gathered at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm to hear the Secretary General of the Academy announce the recipient of the year’s Nobel Prize in Physics.
    Big Think, Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Use these clues to narrow down your guesses.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The combination means an offline cracking attack can make billions of guesses per second, a thousandfold advantage over the same password hashed by non-Kerberos authentication methods.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • These eclectic inspirations are in conversation at the table.
    The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The star’s lower, huskier baritone voice has always made an impact in BTS’ music with the star citing the likes of Bing Crosby, Eric Benet and Ruben Studdard as inspirations.
    Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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“Brain waves.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brain%20waves. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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