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thoughts

noun

plural of thought
1
as in considerations
a careful weighing of the reasons for or against something I'll give your request some thought and then let you know what my decision is

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2
as in ideas
something imagined or pictured in the mind I just had a thought: what if we both pitched in and bought him one big present instead of two smaller presents for his birthday?

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Recent Examples of thoughts Nine final thoughts on Notre Dame’s 52-0 blowout of Rice, which answered a few questions but also requires grading the Irish on a curve. — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026 Whiteside and her colleagues run peer support groups for individuals who are struggling with suicidal thoughts or have already survived suicide attempts, and in need of ongoing support. — Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR, 14 Sep. 2026 Here are my 15 thoughts, notes and tidbit on the game and the rebuild. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 14 Sep. 2026 Screenwriter Miller and director Susanna White take it from the spare stage and the inner thoughts voiced by Comer’s English barrister and try to keep the same idea through the extensive use of voice-over thoughts of Cynthia Erivo‘s character Tessa. — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2026 All of the one hundred or so people gathered were silent, each absorbed by their own thoughts. — Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026 Uneasy feelings activate self-critical thoughts as the moon agitates Chiron. — Usa Today, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026 Manhunt also includes video game segments, which take us inside the digital world, where key ideas and thoughts of the main characters form. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026 When all news is national and every outraged fan can post their thoughts on social media, a suspicious lineup in Utah in April can feed a daylong news cycle. — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thoughts
  1. considerations
  2. ideas
  3. deliberations
  4. notions
  5. pictures
  6. concepts
  7. impressions
  8. conceptions
Noun
  • Alongside these resources, the NPD Hydro portal hosts the NPD Insights catalog for site rankings, as well as the NPD Toolkit, which models payback periods while weighing environmental, community, and electrical grid considerations.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The Giants might get something like cash considerations, a player to be named later or perhaps a teenager who is a half-decade away from even thinking about the majors.
    — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of considerations
Noun
  • Republicans have a president happy to adopt (or take credit for) populist ideas that his party used to blanche at – and candidates who would follow him for every beat.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The whole thing plays like something concocted by an 8th grader sitting in the back of biology class and doodling movie ideas in his notebook, offering more proof that Besson has never quite risen above the juvenile tendencies of his early years.
    — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of ideas
Noun
  • The answer is that both could be ready as early as the Falcons’ Week 2 game against Carolina in Atlanta, a team source told The Athletic on condition of anonymity to speak about private deliberations.
    — Josh Kendall, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2026
  • Turley has argued that lawyers have an ethical obligation not to inflame public anger against jurors who exercise independent judgment during deliberations.
    — Brittany Miller , Bryan Llenas, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of deliberations
Noun
  • In my view, the counseling gap for older adults often reflects outdated notions of aging and of what counseling can offer.
    — Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Her notions of justice and the law — indeed, of her very sense of self — are then upended when she herself is assaulted by Julian (Daniel Ings), her colleague and boyfriend who comes from a relatively privileged background.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of notions
Noun
  • Cuoco also added a few mirror selfies of her baby belly, as well as pictures from throughout her pregnancy so far.
    — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Nine deaths bring nine funerals and the front pages of the two local newspapers, the Middlesbrough Gazette and the Northern Echo, both carry pictures of the previous day’s ceremony for PC Matthew Blades in nearby Hartlepool.
    — Michael Walker, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of pictures
Noun
  • The new banner will develop and produce projects across film, TV, audio and live experiences for exploitation at home and abroad by optioning popular literary works and original concepts.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Some concepts are existing parts of AI research more broadly, although companies connect and implement them differently.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of concepts
Noun
  • But while Jumbo’s has garnered a mythology as a magnet for filmmakers, writers and musicians who collect impressions, the dive’s dancers have shifted from being the subject to the artists.
    — Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Success used to be measured by impressions, click-through rates and website visits.
    — Jay Sen, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of impressions
Noun
  • Beatrice, played by actual academic Anne-Laure Sellier, is a professor at Columbia whose work focuses on how historical conceptions of memory can inform present-day studies of the brain.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026
  • As the narratives converge, Obreht teases out the relationship between our conceptions of history and of ourselves.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of conceptions

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“Thoughts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thoughts. Accessed 17 Sep. 2026.

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