Noun
Form your own opinions: don't let others do your thinking for you!
I've been doing some thinking about this, and I don't think you're right after all.
The school's curriculum encourages independent thinking.
A piece of quick thinking got us out of trouble.
I'd like to know your thinking on this.
What is the current thinking on the subject? Adjective
Chess is a thinking man's game.
it's surprising to find thinking people who believe such nonsense
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Noun
Gamma waves are fast-frequency brain waves associated with thinking skills and memory, and people with Alzheimer’s are known to have fewer of these fast brain waves.—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2024 This solo show, a Rogue Machine Theatre production directed by Lisa James, is one of those delightful instances of theater thinking outside the box.—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024 This thinking is critical not only for attaining gender equity but also for developing introspective, resilient leaders who are prepared to face the challenges of the modern world.—Dan Pontefract, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024 Christian Dior’s Bar jacket and black skirt with Ellsworth Kelly’s White Over Black III represent experiments in shape that have become defining examples of avant-garde thinking.—Amy Verner, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2024 RuPaul has been trying to outrun that kind of thinking for a long time.—Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024 That prospect seeks to use the prospect of Saudi Arabia recognizing Israel to extract concessions from the Jewish state on Palestinian statehood, according to a person familiar with US thinking.—Sam Dagher, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024 While the company has not publicly stated its film goals, those who are aware of the current thinking say Netflix is scaling back budgets and the number of its original movies.—Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2024 San Diego County Assessor Jordan Marks said the thinking behind the law is to give victims time to focus on paying for repairs, not upcoming tax bills.—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024
Adjective
Nibert loved the free-thinking spirit of the village and its college.—Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 28 Aug. 2019 Credit Gus Malzahn for being proactive and thinking long-term in choosing his starting quarterback.—Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 22 Aug. 2019 The quick-thinking team administrator came up with a solution – flag down a tour bus.—Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 25 June 2018 These are the most vulnerable parts [of the brain] and can be easily damaged, so your libido can run a bit more wild when it’s not being curtailed by the higher thinking part of the brain.—Kate Morgan, The Cut, 20 Apr. 2018 Sometimes surgeries require more thinking beforehand.—Erin Blakemore, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2017 These moments suggest a thinking failure of his own: a failure to examine the inapt moral equivalences and disguised elitism inherent in his brand of provocation.—Jesse Green, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2017 Which is why the response by any thinking Republican, or one even with a modicum of decency, was complete silence.—Stephen A. Nuño, NBC News, 2 June 2017
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