noun
1 sth that you think
ADJECTIVE
▪ comforting , good , happy , pleasant , positive
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It was a comforting ~ that at least her father hadn't suffered.
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Before going on stage, I breathe deeply and think positive ~s.
▪ anxious , awful , bad , black , dark , depressing , disturbing , evil , gloomy , horrible , negative , sad , scary , sobering , terrible
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A disturbing ~ suddenly struck me.
▪ confused , crazy , strange
▪ interesting , intriguing
▪ original
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This is hardly an original ~.
▪ first , immediate , initial
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My immediate ~ was that he must be joking.
▪ final
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Do you have any final ~s?
▪ sudden
▪ random
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Let me share a few random ~s with you.
▪ fleeting , passing
▪ intrusive
▪ suicidal
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patients that are suffering from depression and suicidal ~s
▪ conscious
▪ unspoken
▪ waking
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She occupied all his waking ~s.
▪ inner , innermost , private
VERB + THOUGHT
▪ have , think
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I've just had a ~ (= an idea) .
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He remained aloof, thinking his own ~s.
▪ have , hear , know
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Let me have your ~s on the report.
▪ express , share , write down
▪ collect , gather
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She paused to collect her ~s before speaking.
▪ clear
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He shook his head to clear his ~s.
▪ read
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She often seems to know what I'm thinking, as though she can read my ~s.
▪ interrupt
▪ brush aside , brush away , push aside , push away , push from your mind , push out of your mind
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An image of his boss came into his mind, but he brushed the ~ aside.
▪ dread , not be able to bear , not like , not relish
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She said she couldn't bear the ~ of living alone in the house.
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I don't like the ~ of you walking home alone.
THOUGHT + VERB
▪ come into sb's head , come into sb's mind , come to sb , cross sb's mind , enter sb's head , enter sb's mind , hit sb , occur to sb , pop into sb's head , pop into sb's mind , strike sb
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The ~ crossed my mind that Jim might know the answer.
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Such a ~ never entered my head.
▪ flash through sb's mind , go through sb's mind , pass through sb's mind , race through sb's mind , run through sb's mind
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All kinds of ~s raced through my mind.
▪ sb's ~s turn to sth
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My ~s turned to home.
▪ sb's ~s drift back to
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Her ~s drifted back to that night.
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ about
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He lay there thinking gloomy ~s about life and death.
▪ ~ of
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He shuddered at the ~ of going to the dentist.
▪ ~ on
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They asked him what his ~s were on the government's announcement.
PHRASES
▪ just a ~
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Would Mark be able to help? It's just a ~.
▪ keep your ~s to yourself
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He's not the kind of man to keep his ~s to himself.
▪ the mere ~ of sth , the very ~ of sth
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The mere ~ of lice makes my head itch.
2 process/act of thinking
ADJECTIVE
▪ careful , proper ( esp. BrE ), serious
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You should give the offer serious ~.
▪ deep , profound
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She is known for her deep ~ and intellectual ways.
▪ little
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He gave little ~ to the impact of his actions on his family.
▪ coherent
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He was so upset, he was incapable of coherent ~.
▪ logical , rational
▪ analytical , critical
▪ abstract
▪ creative
▪ free , independent , original
▪ conscious
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My job is so repetitive, it does not require much conscious ~.
▪ fresh
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We have to give the matter fresh ~.
▪ second
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I accepted the offer without a second ~.
VERB + THOUGHT
▪ give sb/sth , spare (sb)
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I've given the matter careful ~.
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Don't give it another ~ (= to tell sb not to worry after they have said they are sorry) .
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Spare a ~ for us—we'll be working through the night to finish the report.
▪ direct , turn
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I tried to turn my ~s to pleasanter things.
▪ provoke
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The article was intended to provoke ~.
▪ be deep in , be lost in
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She was deep in ~ and didn't hear me call her.
THOUGHT + VERB
▪ go into sth
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Not enough ~ has gone into this essay.
THOUGHT + NOUN
▪ pattern , process
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I couldn't see what ~ processes led him to that conclusion.
▪ experiment
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A simple ~ experiment may serve to illustrate my point.
▪ bubble
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I can see the comic ~ bubble forming over your head.
PREPOSITION
▪ without ~
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They had acted rashly, without ~.
PHRASES
▪ after a moment's ~
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After a moment's ~, I accepted his offer.
▪ freedom of ~
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The constitution guarantees freedom of ~ and belief.
▪ a line of ~ , a mode of ~ , a train of ~
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That line of ~ can only lead to one conclusion.
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He hesitated, as though he had lost his train of ~.
▪ with no ~ for sth
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He ran into the burning house with no ~ for his own life.
3 ideas
ADJECTIVE
▪ modern
▪ 19th-century , etc.
▪ Eastern , Western
▪ intellectual , philosophical , religious , scientific
▪ economic , political
▪ Christian , feminist , liberal , socialist , etc.
THOUGHT + NOUN
▪ crime ( figurative )
▪ police ( figurative )
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They accused their opponents of being ‘politically correct ~ police’.
PHRASES
▪ a school of ~
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They belong to different schools of ~.
▪ a strand of ~
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three different strands of scientific ~
4 kindness
ADJECTIVE
▪ kind ( esp. BrE ), nice
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Thank you for the flowers—it was a very kind ~.