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Recent Examples of brain wave
Advertisement Years ago, our lab showed in brain scans that listening to the same piece of music caused people's brain waves to synchronize.
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Lindsay A. Fleming, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
During this stage, the eyes move, brain wave activity reaches awake levels, breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure increase.
—Valerie Cacho, Verywell Health, 29 July 2025
Researchers can measure how well a person is sleeping by monitoring their brain wave patterns.
—Jon Hamilton, NPR, 16 July 2025
For instance, some brain waves during lucid dreams cross from one side of the other, or, within the same hemisphere, from one region to the other.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
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Lindsay A. Fleming, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
During this stage, the eyes move, brain wave activity reaches awake levels, breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure increase.
—Valerie Cacho, Verywell Health, 29 July 2025
Researchers can measure how well a person is sleeping by monitoring their brain wave patterns.
—Jon Hamilton, NPR, 16 July 2025
For instance, some brain waves during lucid dreams cross from one side of the other, or, within the same hemisphere, from one region to the other.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brain wave
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The connection between the two cases lies in his approach and the use of controversial theories involving rituals and hidden motivations, which drew significant criticism of his conduct as a prosecutor.—
Isadora Wandermurem,
Time,
22 Oct. 2025
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Another theory is that very heavy rainfall after serious drought violently sloshed the waters of Lake Nyos.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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In proving their hypothesis, researchers fed LLMs continually with X posts that were either short and viral or were shaped to grab users’ attention.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
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This notion supports the continuity hypothesis of dreaming, which proposes that dream content often reflects aspects of a person’s waking life.—
Stacey Colino,
Time,
21 Oct. 2025
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And in the comments of her introductory video, her team shoots down every plausible guess.—
Lisa Respers France,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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The married filmmakers said their best guess currently puts him in Mexico.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
14 Oct. 2025
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The wonderfully ridiculous brainchild of co-stars/directors Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, the mockumentary follows a group of vampires living in an apartment in New Zealand and struggling with the idiosyncrasies of modern times.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
18 Oct. 2025
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The team's discovery comes courtesy of citizen scientists sifting through data on the RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory, which is India's first citizen science platform and is the brainchild of Hota.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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The main level sits a couple of floors above the street and draws inspiration from classic midcentury-modern design, with natural grasscloth wallcoverings wrapping the living and dining rooms.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
22 Oct. 2025
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Not only that, Tolkien and Guest, beyond their creative work, actively supported the Welsh language, while Miyazaki took inspiration from Wales’ workers’ rights movement to tell a universal story about environmentalism and greed.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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As much as the 49ers try to shield themselves from media speculation, Bethune couldn’t help but hear that their defense was in a bad way with Warner gone.—
Jerry McDonald,
Mercury News,
20 Oct. 2025
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Amid speculation about why Brandy abruptly left the concert — Monica immediately dismissed any possible bad blood by shouting out Brandy when the show continued — the singer explained in a statement Sunday morning that she was forced to exit due to health issues.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
19 Oct. 2025
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Mathematicians were able to prove the triangulation conjecture for this version of the amplituhedron in 2021.—
Kevin Hartnett,
Quanta Magazine,
6 Oct. 2025
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People have seen slivers in movies like Paid in Full and read conjecture online, but beneath the surface is an entire world that hasn’t been seen before.—
Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Sep. 2025
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The lawsuit says Taylor Cadle was wrongfully prosecuted for lying before providing video evidence of the abuse, leading to Henry Cadle’s conviction.—
Real-Time News team,
Miami Herald,
20 Oct. 2025
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Leaning on circumstantial evidence and testimony later determined to be made under pressure by local police, according to the Exoneration Registry, Vedam was sentenced to life in prison but continued to appeal his conviction over the next 40-plus years.—
Sean Neumann,
PEOPLE,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Brain wave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brain%20wave. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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