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the ability to learn and understand or to deal with problems
she's got the gray matter to figure that equation out
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Recent Examples of gray matter
The neuroscientists found that gray matter volume was reduced by up to 4.9 percent during pregnancy.
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Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
These cognitive changes are consistent with reductions in gray matter volume during pregnancy.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
In contrast to the reductions in gray matter, the study noted increases in white matter microstructural integrity, particularly during the first two trimesters of pregnancy.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
The key is to cultivate safe ways to maintain social interactions in order to enhance the brain’s gray matter and amp up career creativity and stamina.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
These cognitive changes are consistent with reductions in gray matter volume during pregnancy.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
In contrast to the reductions in gray matter, the study noted increases in white matter microstructural integrity, particularly during the first two trimesters of pregnancy.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
The key is to cultivate safe ways to maintain social interactions in order to enhance the brain’s gray matter and amp up career creativity and stamina.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gray matter
Noun
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Not much can be made of the expressions on their faces, but the contorted bodies are sketched to reveal a sense—even evoke a sound—of intermittent agony.—
Emmanuel Iduma,
ARTnews.com,
21 Feb. 2025
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Reflecting this sense of progression, for the first time in its history Zegna will hold a fashion show outside Italy — choosing a key market for the brand and for the industry at large.—
Luisa Zargani,
WWD,
21 Feb. 2025
Noun
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In fact, gas prices have increased 60% in the African nation over the last six months as Dangote’s refinery has ramped up production, according to market intelligence firm Trading Economics.—
John Hyatt,
Forbes,
17 Feb. 2025
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John Sawers, a former head of the British intelligence service, said there were risks to undertaking such an operation.—
Yan Zhuang,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2025
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And certainly, in the playoffs in the end of the year, Jayden Daniels sitting in the pocket, beating pressure, so much of that again with his poise and intellect and accuracy with his arm, and again, just really, really rare to see that.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Feb. 2025
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While all of this is going on, Rowan, trapped in the Victrola (which Julien has staged like a Victorian pub, for some reason), is just blowing through lore exposition thanks to her suddenly unencumbered intellect.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
2 Feb. 2025
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For that reason, Richardson usually doesn't agree to sit down for other productions.—
Ralphie Aversa,
USA TODAY,
20 Feb. 2025
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This is perhaps part of the reason for the new naming.—
David Phelan,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Gray matter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gray%20matter. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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