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Mind Thinking Refer Back Training Noun Someone's Talking

word mind
definition
noun
You refer to someone's mind when talking about their thoughts. For example, if you say that something is in your mind, you mean that you are thinking about it, and if you say that something is at the back of your mind, you mean that you are aware of it, although you are not thinking about it very much.
I'm trying to clear my mind of all this.
There was no doubt in his mind that the man was serious.
I put what happened during that game to the back of my mind.
He spent the next hour going over the trial in his mind.
She found herself thinking thoughts that would never have entered her mind until now.
Your mind is your ability to think and reason .
You have a good mind.
Studying stretched my mind and got me thinking about things.
...an excellent training for the young mind.
If you have a particular type of mind, you have a particular way of thinking which is part of your character, or a result of your education or professional training .
Andrew, you have a very suspicious mind.
The key to his success is his logical mind.
...an American writer who has researched the criminal mind.
You can refer to someone as a particular kind of mind as a way of saying that they are clever, intelligent, or imaginative .
She moved to London, meeting some of the best minds of her time.
inflections minds
cefr-level A2

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