The phrase "chains of thought" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a series of interconnected ideas or a flow of reasoning.
Example: "As I sat in silence, my mind began to wander, creating intricate chains of thought about my future."
Alternatives: "train of thought" or "stream of consciousness."
In more recent versions of Word, a paper-clip cartoon character called the Office Assistant pops up intermittently, unlinking some writers' chains of thought.
Hyper-dopaminergic function in nigrostriatal and related neural systems might thus play a role in causing the excessive rigidity of behavioral tics, repetitive language utterances, and obsessive chains of thought [ 2, 74, 79, 81, 86, 87].
Let's stop that chain of thought.
I'm not really following Wolfe's chain of thought but then I'm not entirely sure he is either.
A knock on the window interrupts her chain of thought; news has come through that the chief executive of UK Athletics, David Moorcroft, has resigned.
Its style is the same as that of the first: Twain pursues whatever chain of thought presents itself, and he continues to pursue it until he gets bored.
And above all, he rejected the chain of thought that has led to this being seen as America's fault and, by implication, his own.
Watching it fall, he says, "I just did that thing where you're following a chain of thought, and you go, That looked like it was really near.
This threat provoked a long chain of thought in Veronica that led to her saying solemnly, "Gregor and I are getting a divorce".
He was also functionally illiterate and so far as we can tell from Huang, incapable of stringing together a complex chain of thought.
A chain of thought goes from the sight of the flag to the words of the pledge and to pain and humiliation at the rejection of his religious belief system.
