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notion

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Example Sentences

The burrowing freeloaders “challenge our notion of what plants even do,” he says.

There’s another notion of recursion, which is you can reuse stuff.

The answer largely depends on how much we build into the notion of understanding.

The competitive advantage they once had when raising — the notion that they’re focused on an area no one else is — is potentially threatened.

The notion that the state’s attorney’s office can’t simultaneously pursue public safety and a broader sense of justice is false, she said, and it would be a mistake to stop the reform efforts now.

But Brooke was out of step with the New Left and its notion of radical chic.

As Puar further pointed out, this notion of a global gay identity is easily manipulated.

Could you talk a minute about the notion of being an unreliable narrator?

They embraced the notion of a growing America, whose economy could be expanded for the benefit of the majority.

The biggest misfire here, though, was the notion that anyone would believe that this dude looked at all like Prince Harry.

But the Mexican caballeros had no notion of coming up to the scratch a third time.

Although everybody laughed at such a notion, the Worm-eating Warbler declared that he had a right to his own belief.

But I couldn't get rid of the notion that he would hand me out the same dose he had given MacRae if only he had the power.

He had not the least idea what wadding was, and his notion of a bullet was a dockyard cannon-ball bigger than his own head.

Yet, try as I would to strangle the idea, all through the evening the same horrible, unaccountable notion clung to me.

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What are other ways to say notion?

The noun notion suggests a fleeting, vague, or imperfect thought: a bare notion of how to proceed. Thought, which reflects its primary emphasis on the mental process, may denote any concept except the more weighty and elaborate ones: I welcomed his thoughts on the subject. A thought came to him.  Idea, although it may refer to thoughts of any degree of seriousness or triviality, is commonly used for mental concepts considered more important or elaborate: We pondered the idea of the fourth dimension. The idea of his arrival frightened me. Conception suggests a thought that seems complete, individual, recent, or somewhat intricate: The architect’s conception delighted them.

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On this page you'll find 153 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to notion, such as: approach, assumption, concept, conception, image, and impression.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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