brown study

noun

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  1. study
  2. muse
  3. retrospection
  4. introspection
  5. trance
  6. reverie
  7. reflection
  8. meditation
Noun
  • According to WalletHub's recent study on the best places to live, Florida ranked second.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
  • There are more than 36 species in the Semisulcospira genus, including 18 in Lake Biwa in Japan, according to the study.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of study
Noun
  • Gong Yoo had only one episode before his character got killed off, and that mannequin muse made every scene — including and especially his death — count.
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Purdy’s open-field muse was George Kittle, who racked up 151 yards on six catches, after his only catch last week came on the 49ers’ opening snap in Buffalo.
    Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of muse
Noun
  • Such retrospection was not limited to the Barbican.
    Dean Kissick, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The key to meaningful retrospection is to keep it simple and focused.
    AllBusiness, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of retrospection
Noun
  • The constant demands of strategy, decision-making, and stakeholder management can leave little room for introspection.
    Bryce Hoffman, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The subjects of the former president's books ranged widely: foreign policy to religious theory, personal experience with faith to historic presidential moments, introspection to art and even tales for children.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of introspection
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  • Joining Thomas’s ensuing battle to save his wife from the lustful Orlok’s trance is Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz (Willem Dafoe).
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Last night at a white elephant party, an In Waves vinyl record became the hottest commodity, which speaks to the album’s innate power to put experimental dance fans into a crowd-swaying trance.
    Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2024
Definition of trance
Noun
  • Poetry Summer as Erasure Helen Guri Poet Anne Simpson writes a heatwave as a reverie.
    Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The result is a film whose formal audacity is matched by its moral seriousness, examining America’s Jim Crow era through casually searing images interwoven with poetic reveries and archival footage, our nation’s raw-wound present connected to an inescapable past.
    Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of reverie
Noun
  • The president-elect's plan appeared genuine, but the previous proposal by Democratic Mississippi state Representative Steve Holland in 2012 was seen as a reflection of his sense of humor.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
  • But last season, Earps conceded 32 times in the WSL — partly a reflection of United’s poor performance rather than her own, though mistakes started to creep into her own game.
    Michael Cox, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of reflection
Noun
  • Worse still are its vague, belabored meditations on the psychic toll of life undercover.
    Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Dedicated meditation rooms, community spaces for social interaction and window design that pulls in natural light are among features that will be chosen to promote mental health.
    Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of meditation
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