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thought

When you have a thought, you have an idea or concept in the mind. I have a thought about the answer to that problem. Consideration. I will give your words some thought.

thought

(= idea) the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about it was not a good idea the thought never entered my mind (= thinking) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully thinking always made him frown she paused for thought the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual 19th century thought Darwinian thought (= opinion, persuasion) a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty my opinion differs from yours I am not of your persuasion what are your thoughts on Haiti?

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Simple sentences

I thought you liked to learn new things.
For a moment, he thought of going after the man.
Then his mother thought.
I thought you had to get up by 7:30.
I thought about the future.
I thought it impossible for him to solve the problem.
I thought he wouldn't come.
I know you think you understood what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realized that what you heard is not what I meant.
I've thought about you a lot.
She thought she could get him to like her.
I thought doing this would be easy, but we've been working all day and we're still not finished.
I thought you were dead.
The last person I told my idea to thought I was nuts.
Their communication may be much more complex than we thought.
For a moment there, I thought he had gone mad.
I thought it was true.
The professor seemed to be lost in thought.
Yoshio said he would pay as much as 15000 yen for a new pair of basketball shoes, but I thought that was quite expensive.
I thought you'd jump at the chance.
Have you ever thought of becoming a nurse?
I thought it would be a good idea to get back in touch with Japanese culture and history.
We express thought with language.
The girl who I thought was a singer proved to be a different person.
Space travel was thought to be impossible.
The chain of crimes are thought to have been committed by the same man.
The doctors thought he was dead, but today he is still alive and healthy, and has a job and a family.
The doctor thought the patient's pulse was rather rapid.

Movie subtitles

I thought that you might have been caught up in the chaos that person named Zero caused.
As I thought, you're.
I thought that it would be a little while longer before I could make my move.
I thought so too.
As I thought, they won't use the RG's against Elevens.
This is thought to be damage caused by the Geass invading the cerebrum.
As I thought. the Imperial Princess.
I. I thought so!
You probably thought Jethro tull, the english agricultural pioneer, invented the seed drill.
They thought he made up this part three that was buried by a tree on the hill in his backyard.
Who would have thought I'd have this magic touch?
I guess I never really thought of it like that.
Here I thought I could just fly in here all on my own a-a-and change everything by just sticking to Scripture.
Prior to that discovery, we thought that all life on the Earth owed its existence to the sun.
Aw. As I thought, they won't use the RG's against Elevens.
I thought I would have to carry your identity with me to the grave!
For the Egyptians it was Isis' wheat, the Incas saw it as golden star dust, for the Eskimos it was a band of snow and the Christians thought of it as the road to Rome.
But in the meantime, he must surely have thought about other questions in Astronomy.
Why not? I've already thought about it.
I thought the battle of the smalah would end the war, but Abd el-Kader would be on the run for another 4 years.
I thought they hurt their feet!
I thought we were discussing people - and not things.
That is so cool! Hey, I just thought of something.
I thought we were friends.
But Frankie, I didn't know it was your money, and I thought I was getting PBJs.
I thought about it, I realized that wouldn't really change things. Let's hook back outside.
Just thought you might want to know, Frankie and his crew are going to hit back.
Things I thought people should see.
Nah. thought that was it.
Then I thought about Nina..
Yeah, no, I know, I thought I'd be back by now as well.
And I always thought it was one of those things where, you know, Stiles is just, like, he's just a one-woman kind of guy.
In season one, Scott thought that the bite was definitely a curse.
And when I found out it was Jackson, I thought it was a great twist.
It wants to find an owner, and Gerard thought he had it under control.
Gerard thought that he had a plan, and he thought that he was going to take everybody down, he thought that he was the man.

News and current affairs

Citizens, it was thought, had to become more self-reliant; government welfare programs were making everyone soft and dependent.
That is a real enough danger to which policymakers must give serious thought as they reform the CAP on the basis of the following five pillars.
Second, short-term interest rates were so low that additional cuts would spook the financial markets: if even the Fed thought conditions warranted cuts, the argument went, businesses would respond not by increasing their investments but by reducing them.
Little of this, however, is the result of design, for (unfortunately) we in Poland have not thought through what sort of foreign policy we need as a member of NATO and putative member of the European Union.
Fertilizer and spraying were both more expensive than I thought.
Any thought that the anti-terror coalition will be able to bail out fast (as the West did when it abandoned Afghanistan to its fate after the Soviet withdrawal ten years ago) should be forgotten.
He thought that he was giving balanced testimony to Congress on government budget issues.
He thought that his old reality-based friends from the Ford administration were back in power.
Some neo-conservative pundits drew the conclusion that the US was so powerful that it could decide what it thought was right, and others would have to follow.
All that what was wanted from America, most of the young people thought, was withdrawal of its support for allies like Hosni Mubarak and other Arab dictators.
But no one ever seriously thought that the US would allow Citigroup and Bank of America, to name just two, to fail.
It used to be thought that wars were good for the economy.
As long as central government takes responsibility for maintaining a high and stable level of employment, Keynes thought, most of the rest of economic life can be left free of official interference.
Critics who worry about the cost of the energy tax have not thought about tax substitutions.
My father was involved with the United States space program, and we had some moon rocks at home, so I thought it was no big deal.
Democratic societies depend not only on the foundational principle of free speech, but on the character of political thought and conversation among various constituencies.
They thought that financial innovations could somehow turn bad mortgages into good securities, meriting AAA ratings.
A year ago, after the blitz victory in the four-week Iraq War, many people thought the issue was settled.
Since the trade deficit is widely thought to put pressure on US jobs and real wages, the US-China trade imbalance has come under special scrutiny in these days of great angst.
For his bravery and clarity of thought about China's future, Liu deserves the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.
Indeed, she looks more like a Korean Margaret Thatcher - a lady not for turning, in Thatcher's famous phrase, and with clearly thought-through political principles animating her actions.
After all, World War II is widely thought to have helped lift the global economy out of the Great Depression.
These seemingly mutually exclusive alternatives have one thing in common: neither of them has been thought through to the end.

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