brain waves

plural of brain wave

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for brain waves
Noun
  • De Stijl’s theories were a product of their time.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 15 Oct. 2025
  • This could ultimately help scientists rule out certain theories for dark matter and focus on others, saving a great deal of research funding for future projects.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The prize recipients tested profound quantum mechanical hypotheses through clear and rigorous experimentation.
    Zhixin Wang, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
  • None of those jack-of-all-trades models came up with the hypotheses that proved experimentally correct.
    Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Another 250 prisoners had been serving long sentences for convictions in serious crimes, including murder.
    Tim Lister, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The heft of the book—at more than six hundred pages, it is exhaustively researched and exhausting to read—reflects the writer’s convictions.
    Maggie Doherty, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For the neutron stars to precisely fit the signal from the simulations, there would have to be more of these neutron stars than have been observed in real observations.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Giving helpful notes with observations on the merits of the storytelling and the storyteller(s) — not so much.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Much of this momentum traces back to China’s DeepSeek, whose lean, low-cost models upended industry assumptions at the beginning of this year and kicked off a race to make AI smaller, faster, and smarter.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Instead of trying to build a physical model of planetary interiors from possibly flawed and biased assumptions, the authors generated a series of random models of the interior contents of Uranus and Neptune.
    Paul Sutter, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Uncovering this story, coupled with the recognition that the raw ingredients that led to life on Earth are found in billions of star systems across our galaxy and in trillions of galaxies across the observable Universe, has led to some tremendous questions and some equally tremendous speculations.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The speculations are rife with staunch reason justifying why Tesla could embrace this big shift this month.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Until the shutdown is resolved, businesses and policymakers will have to make their best guesses about which way the economy is going.
    Scott Horsley, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Here are my best guesses, after touring each room.
    Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Duffers add that one of the key inspirations for this season is Home Alone—specifically the booby traps.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • One of Reichardt’s greatest inspirations is to create a texture of political conflict involving the Vietnam War and its manifestations in American society—news reports, marches and protests, voices of reaction, police repression—and to integrate into the story as inescapable elements of daily life.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Brain waves.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brain%20waves. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!