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Usage
What are other ways to say thought? The noun thought, which reflects its primary emphasis on the mental process, may denote any concept except the more weighty and elaborate ones: I welcomed his thoughts on the subject. A thought came to him. Idea, although it may refer to thoughts of any degree of seriousness or triviality, is commonly used for mental concepts considered more important or elaborate: We pondered the idea of the fourth dimension. The idea of his arrival frightened me. Conception suggests a thought that seems complete, individual, recent, or somewhat intricate: The architect's conception delighted them. Notion suggests a fleeting, vague, or imperfect thought: a bare notion of how to proceed.
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Did you have a sense of what they thought people were expecting?
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Los Angeles Times
Far from an indignity, I thought it lent a certain gravitas otherwise absent from my banal demeanor.
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The Wall Street Journal
He told the court he was "just talking twaddle" and was writing things down as he thought them.
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BBC
Irving Kristol thought it the most influential Jewish magazine in history.
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The Wall Street Journal
“Every day when I wake up I think about how I can be better at snowboarding and what I can do to make myself better. So I really haven’t thought about that at all.”
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Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
