How to Use think tank in a Sentence

think tank

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  • Across Eastern Europe, the war is driving Cold War-era models out of storage, the think tank added.
    — Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The think tank’s report comes as high prices for many grocery items leave many households struggling to put food on the table.
    — Emily Pandise, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Rand is a research group and think tank, mostly funded by the U.S. government.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The think tank estimates the drop in windfall tax receipts from energy firms to be in the region of £7 billion.
    — Joe Mayes, Bloomberg.com, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Research from the Rand Corp., a nonpartisan think tank, found a similar trend for gun suicides in 2020.
    — Joe Murphy, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Palmer used to be the president of a conservative think tank in Alabama.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2023
  • That's according to a new report released Tuesday by the think tank Detroit Future City.
    — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2024
  • In war games run by the Pentagon and by Washington think tanks, the United States usually loses.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Smith says Pew conducted this analysis after the response to a report the think tank put out last year that looked at the ubiquity of Asian restaurants in the United States.
    — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • News reports about a rising conservative think tank express concerns about its ties to the movement.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The legal battle has been cited in two think tank reports as an example of the regime’s use of foreign judiciaries to attain its ends.
    — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • This year alone, projects worth $40 billion have been launched under the scheme, according to the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank.
    — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Other politicians and think tanks have proposed extending chip controls to older chips and equipment as well.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Crow also sits on the board of trustees for the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.
    — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Both Cato and the Mackinac Center are libertarian-leaning think tanks.
    — Jeremiah Poff, Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Twenty states have implemented such bans, according to one think tank.
    — Arthur Jones Ii, ABC News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Matthew Crawford quit his position as director of a think tank, to open a motorcycle repair shop.
    — CBS News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Coinbase as well as the think tank Coin Center also received similar letters from Warren.
    — Jason Brett, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • This time around, the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank forecasts a shutdown could cost upward of $1 billion a week.
    — Brian Cheung, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The optimal age to start socking away money for your golden years is 25 years old or younger, according to a new report from the Milken Institute, an economic think tank.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Russian submarines in the Black Sea could target ships exporting Ukrainian wheat and other resources, according to experts at a British think tank.
    — Michael Peck, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Matt Motyl, who formerly worked at Meta and is now a research and policy fellow at the Integrity Institute, a think tank focused on trust and safety, agrees.
    — Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Solar and wind power are the fastest growing sources of electricity, according to climate think tank Ember.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Carter is also involved with the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
    — Erin Glynn, The Enquirer, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Over the course of 2023, Russia – a country with three times as many people as Ukraine – increased its troop numbers in the occupied territories by almost a third, according to a London think tank.
    — CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Crane has long corrected those who referred to Cato as a conservative or Republican think tank.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • In this conception, OpenAI would operate more like a research facility or a think tank.
    — Karen Hao, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Alexander Baunov, a journalist and political analyst, was then at the Carnegie Moscow Center think tank.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
  • In 1967, Nixon admired an article Mr. Whalen wrote on nuclear defense while working at the bipartisan think tank.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Economists who do not work with the government are becoming scarce, as independent think tanks are raided and shuttered.
    — Alex Travelli, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2024

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