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 Dan Levy is not holding back his thoughts on Shane Gillis‘ Saturday Night Live monologue. — Denise Petski, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2026 For some, that burden can eventually lead to drinking, drug use, depression, anxiety or thoughts of suicide. — Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 12 Oct. 2026 That could mean recognizing the same conflict happening repeatedly with a co-worker, lying awake each night with racing thoughts, or turning to food or cigarettes during periods of stress, according to Resnick. — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 12 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 Mercury in your 12th House quincunxes Saturn in your 5th, making private thoughts, uncertainty, or unspoken feelings harder to reconcile with fun, romance, or creative expression. — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 9 Oct. 2026 Like fans of the movie, and Colleen Hoover’s book on which the movie is based, star Anne Hathaway (who plays the titular character in the film), has her own thoughts. — Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026 Verity dwells almost entirely in the gulf between the front-facing celeb being interviewed by Alex Cooper and the vicious private thoughts of her confession. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026 As these thoughts raced through his mind, Shawn’s body froze. — Rachel Heng, New Yorker, 4 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
  • Gil also said that opportunities to secure hostage agreements earlier in the war had been lost because of political considerations.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026
  • The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s AI Risk Management Framework is intended to improve organizations’ ability to incorporate trustworthiness considerations into the design, development, use and evaluation of AI systems.
    — Tara Youngblood, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of considerations
Noun
  • My favorite place for developing ideas is a walk along the street, especially in cities.
    — Jenny B. Fine, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Vanity and the sometimes painful pursuit of beauty have never really been gendered ideas.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of ideas
Noun
  • Accordingly, Trump’s public deliberations about who to invade and who to annihilate were themselves crimes, committed in full view of thousands of diplomats and heads of state.
    — Anjali Dayal, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The officials were not authorized to comment publicly about internal Saudi deliberations and spoke on condition of anonymity.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 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
  • The show plays with some clever concepts, particularly in its visual presentation; as the simulation scenarios pile up, so do Vision clones until a dozen exhausted, exasperated Bettanys all collapse on a hotel floor.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Founded in 2009, the retailer’s business comprises 15 stores across China, as well as lifestyle concepts including a restaurant, a tea house, and a flower shop.
    — Ashley Ogawa Clarke, Vogue, 11 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 15 Oct. 2026.

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