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Recent Examples of brain wave
These consumer devices rely on AI to help recognize specific brain wave patterns associated with certain states of mind.
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Emily Mullin, Wired News, 22 Dec. 2025
He’s found that positive emotions—even if consciously self-induced—increase heart coherence and enable coherence between heart and brain waves.
—Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Building on his recent study of macaques, Miller’s goal is to conclusively identify a brain wave signature of unconsciousness in humans.
—Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
The fastest brain waves, gamma waves, are associated with higher-level cognitive functions, such as learning, memory, and information processing.
—Paul McClure 29, New Atlas, 29 May 2025
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Emily Mullin, Wired News, 22 Dec. 2025
He’s found that positive emotions—even if consciously self-induced—increase heart coherence and enable coherence between heart and brain waves.
—Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Building on his recent study of macaques, Miller’s goal is to conclusively identify a brain wave signature of unconsciousness in humans.
—Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
The fastest brain waves, gamma waves, are associated with higher-level cognitive functions, such as learning, memory, and information processing.
—Paul McClure 29, New Atlas, 29 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brain wave
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In theory, this could be a standard beauty modification, like Ingres tossing a few extra vertebrae into a naked back.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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But the general idea is that there is a lot of stuff in the universe that is not the familiar matter that we are made of, and there are theories in which this stuff is not entirely benign.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
19 Apr. 2026
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Then a perusal of several studies that spanned decades and oceans made my hypothesis cloudy enough to blot out that April Fools’ Day moon.—
Doug Turnbull,
AJC.com,
12 Apr. 2026
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Even as a unifying hypothesis was forming, the disease remained an enigma.—
Courtney Crowder,
USA Today,
10 Apr. 2026
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But my guess is that political opposition may have been even more lined up at this point against Netflix than where its at against Paramount given Republicans hold the levers of power.—
Erik Hayden,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Apr. 2026
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Our best guess is John Cusack, whose Edgar Allan Poe movie The Raven came out around then, but Dunham leaves his identity up to the imagination.—
Emma Alpern,
Vulture,
14 Apr. 2026
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The brainchild of Keenen Ivory Wayans, the groundbreaking series aired for five seasons on Fox and launched the careers of Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx and several Wayans siblings.—
Andrea Wurzburger,
PEOPLE,
15 Apr. 2026
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The brainchild of practitioner Alice Moon, the event (which often sells out) is one of many nontraditional wellness offerings from her company Moon Soul Sound Baths.—
Rebecca Leib,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2026
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Comments from Stanley Kubrick revealing his inspiration for the film — the threat of nuclear destruction was just too wild to present as anything but a comedy — could also serve as a thesis statement for the entire genre.—
Debby Wolfinsohn,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 Apr. 2026
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Stone’s character in Martin Scorsese’s Casino (1995) was Maddy’s inspiration in high school.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
13 Apr. 2026
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The story was based on an inconclusive, preliminary finding by ballistics experts and led to speculation about Robinson's possible exoneration.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Apr. 2026
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From the moment Nancy Guthrie disappeared, people started speculating about what might have happened, and some of that speculation centered on Savanah’s sister Annie and her husband.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
16 Apr. 2026
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Like an enzyme that works as a catalyst to speed up a chemical reaction, collaboration ignites new ideas for conjectures.—
Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2026
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In some cases, algorithms formulate a conjecture, prove it, and verify the proof with minimal human intervention.—
Konstantin Kakaes,
Quanta Magazine,
13 Apr. 2026
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But that conviction would later fall apart.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2026
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The two other defendants, ex-ComEd executive John Hooker and former City Club of Chicago head Jay Doherty, did not appeal their convictions and have already served prison sentences and been released to halfway houses in the Chicago area.—
Jason Meisner,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
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“Brain wave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brain%20wave. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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