Synonyms
Examples of thinking in a Sentence
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
Recent Examples on the Web
Will Knight, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2024
What’s needed now is bigger, bolder and more systemic thinking, across the Walt Disney Co.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2024
Perhaps what’s most troubling here is the rise of zero-sum thinking with regard to gender.
—Richard V. Reeves, TIME, 6 Apr. 2024
Such was the thinking behind the Israeli-Saudi normalization agreement that was on the cusp of success just before October 7.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
On questions of tolerance and equality, a fuller and timely picture of Buckley’s thinking would also have addressed his vigorous advocacy against antisemitism on the right.
—The Editors, National Review, 5 Apr. 2024
By 1715, with the first solar eclipse in many centuries approaching London, Halley’s predictive map was a mashup of ancient and modern ways of thinking.
—Joshua Sokol, Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
Rather than pump money into their businesses, the thinking went, companies would use their declining profits to pay down debt.
—Nicholas R. Lardy, Foreign Affairs, 2 Apr. 2024
His thinking went something like this: Everyone in Russia knows this novel — loves this novel.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Apr. 2024
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
Noun
But that's our choice, and that requires a lot of thinking on our part.
—Will Knight, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2024
What’s needed now is bigger, bolder and more systemic thinking, across the Walt Disney Co.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2024
Perhaps what’s most troubling here is the rise of zero-sum thinking with regard to gender.
—Richard V. Reeves, TIME, 6 Apr. 2024
Such was the thinking behind the Israeli-Saudi normalization agreement that was on the cusp of success just before October 7.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
On questions of tolerance and equality, a fuller and timely picture of Buckley’s thinking would also have addressed his vigorous advocacy against antisemitism on the right.
—The Editors, National Review, 5 Apr. 2024
By 1715, with the first solar eclipse in many centuries approaching London, Halley’s predictive map was a mashup of ancient and modern ways of thinking.
—Joshua Sokol, Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
Rather than pump money into their businesses, the thinking went, companies would use their declining profits to pay down debt.
—Nicholas R. Lardy, Foreign Affairs, 2 Apr. 2024
His thinking went something like this: Everyone in Russia knows this novel — loves this novel.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Apr. 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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