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  2. Past - Wikipedia

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    The past continuous tense refers to actions that continued for a period of time, as in the sentence "she was walking," which describes an action that was still happening in a prior window of time to which a speaker is presently referring. The past perfect tense is used to describe actions that were already completed by a specific point in the past.

  3. Déjà vu - Wikipedia

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    Déjà vu may happen if a person experienced the current sensory experience twice successively. The first input experience is brief, degraded, occluded, or distracted. Immediately following that, the second perception might be familiar because the person naturally related it to the first input.

  4. Eureka effect - Wikipedia

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    Research on the Aha! moment dates back more than 100 years, to the Gestalt psychologists' first experiments on chimpanzee cognition. [9] In his 1921 book, [9] Wolfgang Köhler described the first instance of insightful thinking in animals: One of his chimpanzees, Sultan, was presented with the task of reaching a banana that had been strung up high on the ceiling so that it was impossible to ...

  5. Temporal paradox - Wikipedia

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    A bootstrap paradox, also known as an information loop, an information paradox, [6] an ontological paradox, [7] or a "predestination paradox" is a paradox of time travel that occurs when any event, such as an action, information, an object, or a person, ultimately causes itself, as a consequence of either retrocausality or time travel.

  6. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    Never's [Day]") is sometimes used, although some people may prefer the profane Του Αγίου Πούτσου ανήμερα ("right on the Day of St. Dick's"). One might also say that an unlikely event will happen "on the 32nd of the month".

  7. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Non-standard: It's going to require a lot of additional work but she already runs a lot as part of her training regiment for tennis. [ 106 ] Non-standard : It would appear that Guerrero's training, eating, and supplemental regiment works, at least for Brady, to whom Guerrero devotes near-constant attention by mapping out his training and ...

  8. This AI technology was supposed to detect guns in school ...

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    A Nashville school district invested about $1 million in AI gun identification software, the school district said, leaving some to wonder what went wrong in detecting a school shooter in the halls.

  9. Jamais vu - Wikipedia

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    Jamais vu is commonly explained as when a person momentarily does not recognize a word or, less commonly, a person or place, that they already know. [2] Jamais vu is sometimes associated with certain types of aphasia, amnesia, and epilepsy. The phenomenon is often grouped with déjà vu and presque vu (tip of the tongue, literally "almost seen ...