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Recent Examples of brain wave
Neuro procedures are always the scariest, because the surgeons are basically poking around in a little black box and staring at brain waves and hoping their patients don’t wake up partially lobotomized.
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Laura Bradley, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
Looking for brain waves that match those resembling typical sleep patterns, according to the study published in Nature Medicine.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2025
In REM sleep, brain waves are low in amplitude and relatively fast, and the eye movements are rapid, too.
—Beth Ann Malow, Discover Magazine, 24 Nov. 2024
Share [Findings] EEG experts disagreed on whether, in the future, brain waves could be used to read dreams and long-term memories.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
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Laura Bradley, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
Looking for brain waves that match those resembling typical sleep patterns, according to the study published in Nature Medicine.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2025
In REM sleep, brain waves are low in amplitude and relatively fast, and the eye movements are rapid, too.
—Beth Ann Malow, Discover Magazine, 24 Nov. 2024
Share [Findings] EEG experts disagreed on whether, in the future, brain waves could be used to read dreams and long-term memories.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for brain wave
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brain wave
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One theory suggests Mars lost its water to space as solar wind stripped it from the atmosphere — a process supported by ratios of isotopes on the Red Planet, or distinct species of chemical elements, seen today.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
12 May 2025
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My session stretched almost two hours, including a half-hour theory overview on the dunes.—
David Shortell,
Travel + Leisure,
12 May 2025
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For this storm, my immediate hypothesis was related to dry conditions and outflow boundaries racing northward from thunderstorms to the south.—
Marshall Shepherd,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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According to one popular hypothesis, the pot had eventually boiled over: after eons of frustrated heating, some 800 million years ago, the planet’s outer shell buckled, and Venus’s entire surface was paved over with immense outpourings of fresh lava.—
Elise Cutts,
Scientific American,
13 May 2025
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Outside of any current 118 members, and assuming we aren’t cruelly subjected to more of that racist clown Gerrard, the station’s next captain remains anybody’s guess.—
Andy Swift,
TVLine,
5 May 2025
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Understanding how that guess is made creates space for curiosity and caution, humor and critique.—
Diana Spehar,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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The organization is the brainchild of Morad Fareed, a former professional Palestinian soccer player turned scientific entrepreneur.—
Vitas Carosella,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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The project is the brainchild of Smokey and Frances' friends, including Grapevine Ventures' Bob Buzzelli and Louis Caputo, with photography from Engine House 25 Wines founder Duane Rieder.—
Julie Tremaine,
People.com,
7 May 2025
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Layered textures and thoughtful details, every corner of Marco’s hotel is a place of inspiration, a true cornucopia of creativity, where travel and creative vision come together in a living expression of art.—
Felicity Carter,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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But the closest movie theater to Clarksdale, Mississippi, which served as the inspiration for the film’s setting, is some 80 miles away.—
Jade Walker,
CNN Money,
12 May 2025
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For the blockchain space, the campaign provides a use case for fan-facing experiences that don’t center on financial speculation.—
Sandy Carter,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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Yes, after much speculation, Eddie moves back to Los Angeles to continue working with the 118.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
16 May 2025
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Based on this assumption, one mathematician even built an entire edifice of conjectures about exotic spheres and other shapes.—
Erica Klarreich,
Quanta Magazine,
5 May 2025
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Pope Francis, 88, died on Easter Monday, April 21, after a weeks-long illness, sparking a flurry of activity and conjecture as one of the world's oldest and most far-reaching institutions prepares to choose a new leader.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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According to federal law, anything that’s forfeited following a criminal conviction could conceivably be used to help some or all of those alleged to have been victimized by Combs.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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One of the chief reasons Weinstein’s 2020 conviction in the initial trial was scrapped on appeal was the prosecution’s parade of Molineux witnesses—a lineup of three women recounting prior bad acts of Weinstein’s, all claims of assault, but none of them criminally charged.—
Phoebe Eaton,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2025
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