ideation

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In the fashion industry, it takes around six months to design and produce a collection of clothing, from ideation and concept building to the day items end up in stores and online.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

“This is a miraculous thing,” said retired MMA fighter Tait Fletcher, who credits the treatment with freeing him from suicidal ideation.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2025

Researchers at Kaiser Permanente talked to some of them and they “were either not experiencing suicidal ideation at the time of screening or feared the outcome of disclosure, including stigma, overreaction, and loss of autonomy.”

From Slate • May 20, 2024

Takubo, a physician, cited more than a dozen peer-reviewed studies showing a decrease in rates of suicide ideation and attempts among youth with severe gender dysphoria who had access to medication therapy.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2024

Returning for a moment to insects, we find that bees and ants give many evidences of intelligent correlative ideation and action for definite purposes not instinctive.

From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James