notion
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But in 2024, Saad began pushing the notion that empathy has become a “cancer” because it allegedly has no “stopping mechanism” and will eventually kill its host — the human race.
From Salon
“I get interested by a notion of some kind and see that it has dramatic possibilities.”
He’s referring to the fearsome notion of a possible “global stilling” of air currents.
Indeed, so much of Abha, the capital of the southwestern province of Asir, seems a world away — and two dozen degrees cooler — from the scorching desert that dominates Western notions of the kingdom.
From Los Angeles Times
He also said he criticised Russia in his speech and said the notion he was doing what Russia wanted was "provably nonsensical."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.