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Recent Examples of brain wave
During this stage, the eyes move, brain wave activity reaches awake levels, breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure increase.
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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
The first group remembered little of their own essays, and showed weaker alpha and theta brain waves, which likely reflected a bypassing of deep memory processes.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 17 June 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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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
The first group remembered little of their own essays, and showed weaker alpha and theta brain waves, which likely reflected a bypassing of deep memory processes.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 17 June 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 season drew heavy criticism for its glacial pace and incoherent plotting, generating more Reddit theories than actual scares and leaving viewers more haunted by what could have been.—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Oct. 2025
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Combining investigative journalism, DNA analysis and cinematic dramatization, the docuseries examines four competing theories about Columbus’ origins and the mystery around the titles bestowed on him by the Catholic Monarchs.—
Emiliano De Pablos,
Variety,
1 Oct. 2025
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On the other hand, if the AI scaling hypothesis hits unexpected walls, the unwinding could be a second ‘dot com bust’ or worse.—
Billy Perrigo,
Time,
30 Sep. 2025
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Martínez believes Taposiris Magna is a key location in relation to Cleopatra’s burial, although many archaeologists disagree with her hypothesis.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025
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When that might be, though, is anyone’s guess.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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My best guess is that the Jets run Stanley and Schenn on the third pair, based on games played and time on ice per game last season.—
Murat Ates,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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The service is the brainchild of Zedge’s SVP of Product and music industry veteran Tim Quirk, the lead singer of Too Much Joy and key figure in shaping the digital music landscape.—
Thania Garcia,
Variety,
6 Oct. 2025
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The company is the brainchild of Dutch actor and comedian Eline Van der Velden.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
30 Sep. 2025
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Don’t burn out chasing every flicker of inspiration.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 Oct. 2025
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Petras is gearing up to promote her third album, out soon, and was looking for fashion inspiration.—
Alex Wynne,
Footwear News,
1 Oct. 2025
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While filming the episode, everybody had their different speculations.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Oct. 2025
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After the Heat included Wiggins in its trade offer for 15-time All-Star forward Kevin Durant before Durant was eventually dealt to the Houston Rockets early in the offseason, there remained speculation about Wiggins’ future with Miami.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
5 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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If the additivity conjecture is to be believed, then the original knot’s unknotting number should be 5, and this new knot’s should be 4.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
22 Sep. 2025
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Shota Imanaga, the Japanese lefty who usually pitches with so much joy and conviction, stood at his locker, searching for answers.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Supreme Court denies Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal The Supreme Court has declined to take up the appeal of Ghislaine Maxwell, who was contesting her prosecution and conviction on grounds that the government had violated a non-prosecution agreement made with Jeffrey Epstein before his death.—
Devin Dwyer,
ABC News,
6 Oct. 2025
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