thunk

verb/θʌŋk/

Frequency rank: #18,750 most common English word

Meaning

a sudden realization or thought; also a technical term for a delayed computation wrapped in a function.

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Example sentence

After hours of debugging, she finally had thunk about why the code was running so slowly.

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