BRAIN WAVES Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

brain waves

noun

plural of brain wave

as in theories

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Noun

But there are many theories about why people are attracted to true crime, with serial killers being the stars of that world.

— Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
Until then, it was thought bats might’ve emerged somewhere in North America, among other theories.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of theories

Noun

Their science fair projects – a bird feeder and a device producing the smoothest smoothies – were also crafted with AI assistance after developing their own hypotheses and plans.

— Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026
The Danish company said further work is needed to confirm the hypotheses of two post-study analyses.

— Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of hypotheses

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Pike was convicted and sentenced to death in 1996, and the Tennessee Supreme Court later affirmed her convictions and sentence.

— Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026
Jeffrey Weisheit has a right under Indiana law to seek clemency and ask for a life sentence for his murder and arson convictions.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of convictions

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Defeat effectiveness exceeded approximately 75 to 80 percent, while operator observations indicated the system was even more effective at preventing hostile UAS from successfully completing their missions.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
SpaceX now seems increasingly disinterested in the US government for most contracts outside of data services, such as Starshield for military communications and observations.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of observations

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Many mathematicians have stopped posting open conjectures and potential ideas at the end of their papers, for fear that they’ll be scraped by bots and fed into AI models.

— Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Oct. 2026
There have been a lot of conjectures, but little in the way of actual proof of what took place.

— Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 25 May 2026

Definition of conjectures

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Even watching a magic trick can challenge our assumptions about the world and stimulate more original thinking.

— Julie Bourdin, NPR, 25 Oct. 2026
In the short term, slowing demand would mean lower emissions from the existing system than today’s baseline assumptions and less investment in new natural gas infrastructure.

— Justin Worland, Time, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of assumptions

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The chips in question are BM1370s, which together draw up to 600 W of power, and peak at a hashrate (how many guesses per second a miner makes) of 34 TH/s or 34 trillion guesses per second.

— Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2026
Other guesses had commenters point to The Substance, The Little Mermaid’s Ursula, SpongeBob, and the Demogorgons from Stranger Things.

— Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Oct. 2026

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