brain waves

noun

plural of brain wave
as in theories

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  1. theories
  2. hypotheses
  3. convictions
  4. observations
  5. conjectures
  6. assumptions
  7. speculations
  8. guesses
Noun
  • Without a direct and blanket statement in the tradition providing a rationale, European and Indian scholars have proposed a variety of theories to explain Hindu divine morphology.
    — Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Astrophysicists have several theories for what dark matter could be.
    — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of theories
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  • The models have to suss them out by taking actions in the game, seeing what happens, forming hypotheses, and then taking more actions to test those theories.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Microsoft is already deploying autonomous threat-detection capabilities capable of continuously investigating incidents, developing hypotheses, gathering supporting evidence and identifying malicious activity that traditional processes can miss.
    — Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of hypotheses
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  • Family says risks remain despite convictions The court also ordered about $223,500 in compensation for Inuma’s legal heirs and about $74,500 for Tapullima, the woman wounded in the attack.
    — Steven Grattan, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Steel asked after eliciting testimony that there were no convictions stemming from King Von’s death.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of convictions
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  • The Arctic is also a world in flux, and van den Bemd is careful not to present personal observations as scientific conclusions.
    — Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Later experiments at the Beijing Spectrometer and Belle in Japan supported its existence, but all of those observations came from collisions between electrons and positrons.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of observations
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  • 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
  • As part of the effort to prove these conjectures, Grothendieck proposed his notion of a scheme.
    — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026
Definition of conjectures
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  • These outsiders, like executives or academics from different fields, offer crucial external perspectives, unburdened by internal assumptions or politics.
    — Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
  • The company says that mission demonstrated that data center-grade computing hardware could operate in orbit, where conventional assumptions about cooling, radiation and power management no longer apply.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of assumptions
Noun
  • Such speculations reflect the richness of possibilities that the new work opens up.
    — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Their speculations, although deemed inaccurate by later historians, helped shape popular understandings of the ancient druids.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of speculations
Noun
  • Tests get built around actual user behavior, like scroll depth or device, instead of guesses based on age or location.
    — Karan Sharma, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Points were awarded for correct guesses, and a league table was used to track the standings.
    — The Athletic Soccer Experts, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
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