The phrase circulates after every mass shooting. To critics, the repetition of these shootings exists because no one is doing much else besides offer thoughts and prayers.

Some Facebook prayer groups already have hundreds of thousands of members, however, and clicking an “I prayed” button is not very different from typing the same phrase in a comment; ...

There have been countless renditions of Madonna's 1989 hit single "Like a Prayer.". But if you open TikTok right now, chances are the one that will come up fastest is a choral version recorded for ...

"Thoughts and prayers for folks in Boston," a former colleague posted on Facebook. "Pray for Boston," another friend wrote, echoing a popular Facebook page, Twitter hashtag, and image meme. It was ...

A chain message from 2020 claiming Facebook is banning a Christian prayer has resurfaced on the site — and it’s still not true.

A 2017 episode of “BoJack Horseman,” an animated Netflix comedy about an anthropomorphic horse, is titled “Thoughts and Prayers.” In the episode some characters scramble to respond ...

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There have been countless renditions of Madonna’s 1989 hit single “Like a Prayer.” While Tik Tok’s latest meme doesn’t have an official name, it’s highly recognizable on for-you-pages ...

Semantic satiation is the phenomenon in which a word or phrase is repeated so often it loses its meaning.

The phrase circulates after every mass shooting. To critics, the repetition of these shootings exists because no one is doing much else besides offer thoughts and prayers.

How 'thoughts and prayers' went from common condolence to cynical meme. Semantic satiation is the phenomenon in which a word or phrase is repeated so often it loses its meaning.