as in novelties
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
Our legal and historical notions of agency have long depended on physical embodiment—the sanctity of a single, identifiable body.
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Dan Turello, New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2026
But a more recent line of research has pushed back against these notions, using statistical analysis to suggest that the apparent variations in response are just the result of measurement error and day-to-day biological variability.
—Outside, 6 Jan. 2026
Beau McCall understands the affective power of buttons—these commonplace household notions have captured his imagination for decades.
—Alex Jovanovich, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
What interpretive engagement reveals is that since its inception MAGA marked a dramatic ideological mutation on the right, a homegrown fusion of celebrity, neoliberal boss culture, Christian nationalism, and autocratic notions of the executive.
—Jason Blakely, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Although the other Na’vi are very tapped into large Mother Gaia notions of flora and fauna, and the belief that everyone is connected on Pandora, the ash people have a much more nihilistic worldview.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2025
Since welcoming Koa into the family, Christie says Luca has defied all preconceived notions about older siblings.
—Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 19 Dec. 2025
One wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that a 56-year-old Connecticut man murdered his mother and took his own life after ChatGPT repeatedly affirmed his paranoid notions about people in his life orchestrating a conspiracy against him.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2025
Over the next year, they’ll be torn apart and tested, facing fear and violence in a world with preconceived notions about them.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for notions
novelties
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There’s much to look forward to—the novelties due to come out at LVMH’s 2026 Watch Week in Milan later this month, for starters—but also much to fret over.—
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The hero of the book’s first section is the sixteenth-century Spanish priest and writer Bartolomé de las Casas, who straddled the Old World and the New, issuing startling moral novelties to both.—
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“Notions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/notions. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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