idea
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For nearly an hour, he had no idea whether she was alive and kept calling her without success.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
The recommendations centered on the idea that Syracuse was failing to recruit aggressively enough.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
The team calls this idea the "Relativity of Spacetime Superpositions."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
The next year, he enrolled in Harvard Business School, where he developed the idea for Thrive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
“What’s all this?” she asked, but she had an idea, and the panic started to bubble.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Professor Mark Sullivan, also from the University of Southampton, said questioning established ideas and observations remains an essential part of the scientific process.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
“He’s cautious about how he reacts. … He doesn’t want people getting ideas on whether something is good or bad because he understands others have better product sense.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
"What is particularly difficult for me to accept is that his ideas are not dead," the 74-year-old said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
“Any ideas of things to see in L.A.?” he asks me, dressed in a violet-colored chore jacket only a few shades removed from the blue one he wore onstage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
“The whole country’s depending on us, Novis, even if they don’t know who we are. We need new ideas, and we need them now.”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
Vocabulary lists containing idea
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Common Core Grade 6, List 1
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