Showing results for the idea. Search instead for the Beeb.

the idea

Idioms

Also, the very idea. See under what's the idea.

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Regardless, United CEO Scott Kirby pitched the idea of a potential tie-up between to senior officials just days before the Iran war began, Bloomberg reported late Monday.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

In classical physics, the idea of memory is straightforward.

From Science Daily • Apr. 14, 2026

I got in there the idea of a strain with the Lakers, but I wanted to make sure to not defile that relationship based upon certain things that I wasn’t going to dig into.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

“Churchill railed against the idea that any event was unavoidable,” Mr. Vinen writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

But that answer, and the idea that science evolves and that sometimes there is no way to predict the future, was uncomfortable.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023