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Recent Examples of brain wave
The quiet bursts of staticky pink noise are supposed to disrupt those brain waves, encouraging your brain to sink closer to sleep.
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Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 10 Mar. 2025
Neuro procedures are always the scariest, because the surgeons are basically poking around in a little black box and staring at brain waves and hoping their patients don’t wake up partially lobotomized.
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
Looking for brain waves that match those resembling typical sleep patterns, according to the study published in Nature Medicine.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2025
In REM sleep, brain waves are low in amplitude and relatively fast, and the eye movements are rapid, too.
—Beth Ann Malow, Discover Magazine, 24 Nov. 2024
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Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 10 Mar. 2025
Neuro procedures are always the scariest, because the surgeons are basically poking around in a little black box and staring at brain waves and hoping their patients don’t wake up partially lobotomized.
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
Looking for brain waves that match those resembling typical sleep patterns, according to the study published in Nature Medicine.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2025
In REM sleep, brain waves are low in amplitude and relatively fast, and the eye movements are rapid, too.
—Beth Ann Malow, Discover Magazine, 24 Nov. 2024
See All Example Sentences for brain wave
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brain wave
Noun
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But the people interviewed for this story float several theories.—
Tyler Hicks,
Rolling Stone,
5 June 2025
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As fear grew in 2023 over the failure to reach a deal on raising the debt ceiling, the White House was said to be considering an option of last resort: an untested legal theory that involves invoking the 14th Amendment.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
4 June 2025
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For each test, include the specific messaging hypothesis, how to implement it, and how to measure results.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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However, the data doesn't seem to really support this hypothesis in manufacturing.—
Greg Rosalsky,
NPR,
27 May 2025
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My guess is that, after all these years, the horizontal pipe had filled with water, rendering the vent useless.—
Tim Carter,
Hartford Courant,
31 May 2025
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Figuring out the right price for goods has long been a moving target, that used to come down to best guesses and luck trying to perfectly match supply with demand.—
Kathleen Walch,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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This whole system is mostly the brainchild of Vannevar Bush (yes, of that Bush family) who headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II and advocated for government support of research in the university system.—
Allison Schrager,
Twin Cities,
3 June 2025
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But the project was the brainchild of Lindsay, who along with co-producers TJ Martin and Rich Middlemas in 2012 won an Oscar for best documentary feature for their film about three under-privileged students from Memphis and the volunteer coach striving to help.—
Vahe Gregorian,
Kansas City Star,
29 May 2025
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Frank Sinatra, whom Danza knew and worked with, is clearly the inspiration for the show, and the passion Danza has for his hero is contagious.—
Robin Raven,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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Ali told Newsweek where the inspiration behind the post came from.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 June 2025
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His college admissions have been the subject of speculation since the Trump administration's Tuesday, May 27, decision to slash all remaining federal funding to the Ivy League institution.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
28 May 2025
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But the appeals court, Alito said, deferred to school officials’ speculation about the effects of the T-shirt, even though there were no actual disruptions, and accepted the administrator’s conclusion that the shirt’s messaged demeaned others’ personal identity.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
28 May 2025
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If the conjectures are true, then all sorts of equations beyond elliptic curves will be similarly tethered to objects in their mirror realm.—
Joseph Howlett,
Quanta Magazine,
2 June 2025
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Many observers were perplexed that an eighty-two-year-old man with virtually unlimited access to medical care—and about whose health there has been virtually unlimited conjecture—could have gone undiagnosed until the cancer threatened his life.—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
22 May 2025
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Gutierrez was one of three people charged in Hutchins’ death on the movie set south of Santa Fe, N.M., but the only one who received a felony conviction.—
Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
25 May 2025
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His conviction for the rape and murder of a child employee, 13-year-old Mary Phagan in 1913, is widely considered unjust, largely attributed to a biased trial and antisemitism.—
David John Chávez,
Mercury News,
25 May 2025
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