notions
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Notions of interruption, edges and endings have come to preoccupy Koestenbaum.
From New York Times • May 5, 2020
All through her teen years, she works at Lindy’s Fabric and Notions shop, designing and sewing clothes for herself, her best friend Sierra Moore and others.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2019
Accordingly, I perus’d the ſame, but was ſo far from being convinc’d of my having before entertain’d falſe Notions of the Matter, that I found myſelf oblig’d to Confute these Aſſertions in print.
From Slate • Nov. 20, 2018
Notions of basic human decency, especially the kind peddled by Hollywood, have changed, and viewers see injustices on-screen through contemporary eyes.
From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2017
Included would be all ‘new Contrivances, whether Notions, Engines, or Experiments’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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