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notions

noun

plural of notion

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small useful items the fabric store had a wide variety of thread, pins, buttons, and other notions

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Recent Examples of notions The entire collection was made from the fabrics, trims, notions, and remnants that have accumulated at its studio over the years. — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 19 Aug. 2026 De Fabeltjeskrant is designed to tap into both notions, restoring and distributing the original programming for the audiences who grew up with it and simultaneously rebuilding the property for children encountering its characters for the first time. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2026 Ahead, get a whiff of the vanilla perfumes that turn traditional notions of the note on their head. — Vogue, 17 Aug. 2026 The different notions of time, and their ultimate compatibility, flowed from this symmetry, which was unlike any that physicists had seen before. — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 Aug. 2026 Questioning of potential jurors captured the difficult quest of trying to find those who don’t have preconceived notions about the killing, which has been plumbed in several documentaries and countless podcasts and social media videos. — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026 But Schleien considers official pietism—the theocratic strictures, the holy geographies, and Iron Age notions of vengeance—a threat in its own right, and one that exacerbates various security crises. — Bernard Avishai, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2026 My work shows how the growing association between alligators and Black bodies was part of this larger campaign to reinforce notions of Black inferiority. — The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026 What happens after that is committed to the good common sense of the client who usually leaves that office with only vague notions about what has been done so far and what needs to be done in the future. — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

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novelties

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Other novelties included Kiss Kiss, reinvented in 2005 with Hervé Can der Straeten, and Rouge G, reinvented with Lorenz Bäumer featuring the famed double-mirror case.

— Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 12 Aug. 2026
What seemed like a low barrier for starting a company and finding investors — spurring viral storylines around 19-year-old blockchain CEOs and other such novelties — has given way to a high sense of precarity for people entering today’s arena.

— Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 5 Aug. 2026

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