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English word

notion

B2Academic AWL-5Frequent NGSL-2
UK /ˈnəʊʃn/US /ˈnəʊʃn/
noun

an idea, a belief or an understanding of something

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Taylor Swift's NYU Commencement Speech (2022)
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Being publicly humiliated over and over again at a young age was excruciatingly painful, but it forced me to devalue the ridiculous notion of minute-by-minute, ever-fluctuating social relevance and likability.

Taylor Swift's NYU Commencement Speech (2022)

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But I don't think many people have really sort of taken seriously the notion of, you know, a robot at home.

Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about (TED 2022)Sentence 268 · Pro

It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools, and great notions.

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement AddressSentence 140 · Pro

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