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Recent Examples of brain wave
The technology tracked brain waves, trying to detect stress and attention levels.
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Kate Conger, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
The company’s first product, which began preorders this year, tracks brain waves with electrocephalography (EEG) sensors, then tweaks them with sound waves delivered via bone conduction.
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2024
Scientists found that during an Access Bars session, the brain waves reach a state of 1-hertz delta, which normally can only be reached during a deep sleep phase.
—David Kubes, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Calcium regulates brain waves during the restful sleep phase (non-rapid eye movement sleep).3
Dairy products, fatty fish with bones, and certain vegetables like kale and bok choy naturally contain calcium.
—Amy Brownstein, Ms, Rdn, Verywell Health, 16 Dec. 2024
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Kate Conger, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
The company’s first product, which began preorders this year, tracks brain waves with electrocephalography (EEG) sensors, then tweaks them with sound waves delivered via bone conduction.
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2024
Scientists found that during an Access Bars session, the brain waves reach a state of 1-hertz delta, which normally can only be reached during a deep sleep phase.
—David Kubes, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Calcium regulates brain waves during the restful sleep phase (non-rapid eye movement sleep).3
Dairy products, fatty fish with bones, and certain vegetables like kale and bok choy naturally contain calcium.
—Amy Brownstein, Ms, Rdn, Verywell Health, 16 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brain wave
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Within just a few years, Einstein would publish his theory of relativity and launch an entirely new era of physics.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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As with the human brain, there are a lot of theories about how AI functions.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
6 Apr. 2025
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Refraining from adding personal conjecture or hypotheses might reduce any bias LLMs bring into their calculations.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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The objective was to confuse enemy U-boat captains trying to determine the speed and direction of those ships, and a 1919 study seemed to support that hypothesis.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
31 Mar. 2025
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Trash collection How Wednesday’s council vote on the extension will go is anyone’s guess.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
31 Mar. 2025
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Competitive Wordle Score Zero points all around today, what with the four guesses and the tie.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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The statue was the brainchild of an anti-slavery activist.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
5 Apr. 2025
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The brigade was the brainchild of Jovenel Moïse, the president who was assassinated in 2021.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2025
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Telling the story of a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives, these creatives drew inspiration from some interesting places, including John Deere’s 1950s office buildings.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
6 Apr. 2025
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The interiors are courtesy of Atlantic Hospitality’s team of designers, Krista Stokes and Mark Cotto, who drew inspiration from the coastal landscape to incorporate colors such as bark, moss, slate, oyster, and lady slipper pink.—
Everett Potter,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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Newsom is one in a deep bench of Democratic governors stoking 2028 speculation, while Ocasio-Cortez herself is thought to have ambitions for higher office.—
David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
29 Mar. 2025
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Atlanta Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins’ offseason travels sparked speculation online about which NFL team the veteran could suit up for next season.—
Paulina Dedaj,
FOXNews.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Previous proofs of the conjecture were quite complicated, Bamler said.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
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The McKay conjecture is another example of this principle.—
Leila Sloman,
WIRED,
23 Mar. 2025
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Carlos Ambriz, a 53-year-old Mexican national, made contact with ICE officers while serving a 40-year sentence in the Montana State Prison for a deliberate homicide conviction and was served a notice to appear before an immigration judge.—
Elizabeth Pritchett,
FOXNews.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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His defense team had sought a full acquittal on the charge of making murder threats and a lesser penalty for the theft conviction.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Brain wave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brain%20wave. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.
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