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Recent Examples of brain wave
It’s also known as a polysomnography, and the study records your brain waves, the oxygen level in your blood, and your heart rate and breathing during sleep.
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Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 10 Oct. 2024
All brain waves fall into different categories of electric wave speed, measured in hertz (Hz).
—Brittany Dube, Health, 13 Aug. 2024
Binaural beats don't all sound the same, but they're created the same way—by interacting with the frequencies of your brain waves.
—Brittany Dube, Health, 13 Aug. 2024
Seeking an alternative treatment option, Mody and his team turned to gamma oscillations – high-frequency brain waves that have been associated with memory and other cognitive processes.
—New Atlas, 8 Aug. 2024
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Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 10 Oct. 2024
All brain waves fall into different categories of electric wave speed, measured in hertz (Hz).
—Brittany Dube, Health, 13 Aug. 2024
Binaural beats don't all sound the same, but they're created the same way—by interacting with the frequencies of your brain waves.
—Brittany Dube, Health, 13 Aug. 2024
Seeking an alternative treatment option, Mody and his team turned to gamma oscillations – high-frequency brain waves that have been associated with memory and other cognitive processes.
—New Atlas, 8 Aug. 2024
See all Example Sentences for brain wave
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While the triggers for the extreme cold at that time are debated, prevailing theories involve changes in tectonic plate activity, including the release of particles into the atmosphere that reflected sunlight away from Earth.Liam Courtney-Davies, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
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One theory is that its effects may have something to do with the drugs’ ability to induce the feeling of satiation.Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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The hypothesis has come under serious scrutiny in biomechanical studies, as well as a growing body of medical and legal literature.Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2024
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Bloodwork results furnish evidence for Elsbeth’s roofie hypothesis; Mac had high levels of a substance called scopolamine in her system.Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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This usually would be a good guess—the mainstream media, especially those who are addicted to social media, tend to be out of touch.Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
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What happens after, however, seems to be anyone’s guess.Kate Lindsay, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
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Marking its 70th anniversary in 2023, Buchinger Wilhelmi in Überlingen, Germany, was the brainchild of a clean-living German naval doctor, Otto Buchinger (1878-1966), whose career was cut short by excruciating rheumatism.Bill Prince, theweek, 7 Nov. 2024
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The development of this chiming mechanism is the brainchild of Christopher Ward's Master Watchmaker, Frank Stelzer.Bhanu Chopra, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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The red seconds hand draws inspiration from the brand’s signature red rivets.Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 5 Nov. 2024
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As the Cure’s front man and primary songwriter, Smith’s never been shy about drawing blatant lyrical inspiration from his favorite books and poems.Chris Stanton, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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While the clearest above-water path for the report’s release is by agreeing to a majority vote by the Ethics Committee, there is also speculation that any single member could offer a privileged resolution on the House floor to force an up-or-down vote on its disclosure.John Parkinson, ABC News, 20 Nov. 2024
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Conspiracy theories and speculation swirled on social media.Eric Larsen, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Nov. 2024
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However, careful scientific examination has proved both those conjectures wrong.Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
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What happened after that is conjecture mixed with logic and the findings of a United States Department of Justice investigation.Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
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Stewart had previously appealed his conviction in 2003, but that was denied by the 3rd Court of Appeals.Bianca Moreno-Paz, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Nov. 2024
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Azarias’s arrival, and his conviction that there may well be a future outside — out at sea, perhaps — feels like an affront to what Tania and Vida have been building, to their very co-existence.Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 20 Nov. 2024
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“Brain wave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brain%20wave. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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