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can be thought of as vs can be thought as

The correct construction is "can be thought of as." It is necessary to include "of" after the verb "thought" to indicate the relationship between the subject and the idea being considered.
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can be thought of as

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to introduce a comparison or analogy between two things. The preposition "of" is necessary after the verb "thought" to indicate the relationship between the subject and the idea being considered.

Examples:

  • The new technology can be thought of as a game-changer in the industry.
  • Her actions can be thought of as a reflection of her values.
  • The painting can be thought of as a masterpiece.
  • The project can be thought of as a success.
  • The book can be thought of as a classic.
  • Sep 16, 2024 ... "Cynicism can be thought of as a toxic set of self-fulfilling prophecies.” This week, we conclude this year's You 2.0 series by talking with ...
  • Apr 7, 2022 ... Complex numbers can be thought of as “2-dimensional”. In the same vein, Quaternions are “4-dimensional”. Does there exist a similar ...
  • Jun 3, 2020 ... One of the strengths of Obsidian is that it can be thought of as a toolkit for building machines for thinking. But this strength can be a ...
  • Jun 11, 2019 ... What do you think about the statement ""The symbol shown below in the ladder diagram can be thought of as a contact that is usually opened."?
  • Jul 1, 2023 ... If division can be thought of as simply another way to do subtraction, why does dividing by zero not result in infinity? · 1 · 2 · 3 · Related: math ...
  • Jun 12, 2019 ... The symbol shown in the ladder diagram can be thought of as a contact that is... Thread starter TimWilborne; Start date Jun 11, 2019 · Prev · 1 ...
  • Why a Condensate Can Be Thought of as. Having a Definite Phase. Volume 101. Number 4. July–August 1996. S. M. Barnett. Department of Physics and Applied.
  • Jun 22, 2019 ... ... can be thought of as some kind of philosophical theory of laws of nature (you know the full Latin name of Newton´s book Principia) that are ...
  • Sep 9, 2024 ... ... can be thought of as a rough physics/engineering problem trying to optimize and harmonize what I thought of as the three main determining ...

Alternatives:

  • can be seen as
  • can be considered as
  • can be viewed as
  • can be regarded as
  • can be perceived as

can be thought as

This phrase is incorrect in English. The preposition "of" is necessary after the verb "thought" to indicate the relationship between the subject and the idea being considered.

  • Jun 4, 2022 ... It's said that entropy can be thought as the avg Y/N questions needed to find out the label, then how to arrange the tree for sequence like " ...
  • Apr 19, 2019 ... Forgiveness can be thought as a loving release of the past. Attachment to the past or in other words repeating the thought, feelings and ...
  • Jan 12, 2017 ... ... can be thought as the vectors representing some coordinate system ... Are there any other type of matrices, apart from the rotation matrices, ...
  • Jun 8, 2014 ... I think half of mathematics can be thought as a generalization of Linear algebra. You can get a better answer if you specify your question a little bit more!
  • Oct 21, 2022 ... Expected money value can be thought as the profit from choosing a risky bet. the outcome of an experiment with a highest probability on average.
  • Apr 15, 2017 ... One such term that I can make would be THEMELETS which can be thought as small themes or a word-play of theme + template (= theme templates).
  • Nov 2, 2020 ... I found these two posts but they don't explain in detail why functions can be thought as tuples. The autor wants to show that Rn and R{1,2 ...
  • Oct 9, 2016 ... Dataframes can be thought as excel tables. The main data is a 2D table and any operation can be row based or column based. Operations ...
  • Aug 20, 2022 ... For mesh booleans, “tolerance” can be thought as “the amount of space for which a hit/miss misinterpretation is irrelevant”. So the two ...
  • May 13, 2020 ... This is mathematically consistent, since what you want is indeed matrix multiplication and transpose(B) or B' can be thought as 1 by 1 matrices.

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