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 This is the ability to reframe thoughts and physical signs that could be interpreted as anxiety in a less threatening way. — Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026 This is music pulled clingwrap-tight, close to tearing, around dozens of little thoughts. — Alex Robert Ross, Pitchfork, 20 Oct. 2026 More thoughts on autonomous cars Last week’s column discussed Waymo’s claims that its self-driving vehicles are far safer than human drivers. — Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 18 Oct. 2026 Mindfulness or an absorbing activity can redirect attention from repetitive thoughts to the present. — ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026 His thoughts postgame weren’t on boarding a bus for the 2-hour, 15-minute ride back to southeast Kansas. — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2026 Another chorus of thoughts and prayers Members of the Bend community gathered downtown in Drake Park on Thursday evening for a prayer vigil to support each other and grieve. — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026 As Beatles fans are transported back to Abbey Road for Sam Mendes‘ upcoming biopic, Paul McCartney has some thoughts on the casting. — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2026 What are your thoughts about being nominated in the category of best new artist at this year’s Latin Grammys? — Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thoughts
  1. considerations
  2. ideas
  3. deliberations
  4. notions
  5. pictures
  6. concepts
  7. impressions
  8. conceptions
Noun
  • Technical considerations can be discussed, but the decisions that shape an image ultimately arise from something inexplicable.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Security considerations such as encryption and securely retiring storage media also remain important.
    — Paul Speciale, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of considerations
Noun
  • When teams stay genuinely curious and learn to challenge ideas without challenging people, disagreement becomes a tool for better thinking and can actually strengthen trust.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Santoyo supports meeting regularly with students and the community to exchange ideas and concerns.
    — Sophia Veneziano, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of ideas
Noun
  • The sentence came after roughly three hours of jury deliberations following a two-and-a-half-week trial.
    — Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Rankin said the funding later came before the full board during public budget deliberations.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of deliberations
Noun
  • Mesh, lace, metallic studs, crochet and tie-dye competed for attention, while fitted party dresses and washed denim leaned heavily on familiar notions of off-duty rock-chick dressing.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Credibility is affected deeply by strategic cultural assessments about superiority and inferiority, and notions about when, where, how and for whom the credibility matters.
    — Christopher Nichols, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of notions
Noun
  • Al Hassan remembers showing a group of visitors TAMM’s feature for taking pictures and reporting potholes.
    — Inzamam Rashid, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The men appear to have developed a close relationship and often share pictures together on their socials, including posing together at the 2021 Los Angeles premiere of the Peter Jackson’s Beatles miniseries Get Back (see above).
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of pictures
Noun
  • No accident that the likes of Lisa Yuskavage, Sasha Gordon, and Mulligan are regularly invoked in accounts of cringe-adjacent concepts like abjection, disturbance, disquiet.
    — Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Last year, Royal Palm underwent a $100 million renovation by new owner Park Hotels and Resorts, updating all guest rooms, adding new dining concepts, and restoring key architectural features.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of concepts
Noun
  • Critics claim that members are either uninterested in doing their job or more focused on showboating and gaining social media impressions than legislating.
    — Scott Warren, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Elsewhere, Basquiat printed the same screen twice, moving it only a few millimeters between impressions.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of impressions
Noun
  • Many young adults who started families in the past twenty years were raised this way, which shaped their own conceptions of how to rear children.
    — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Whether destruction or technological progress, both are purposeful activities, each with different conceptions of success or failure.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of conceptions

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“Thoughts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thoughts. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.

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