lateral thinking
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This is, in many ways, a perfect example of lateral thinking in action: Two intelligent groups looking at exactly the same situation and perceiving entirely different realities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
This year's puzzle challenges the public to decode the names of UK landmarks, testing skills like codebreaking, maths and lateral thinking.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2024
If these sorts of solutions to geological problems seem to come from left field, Dr. Petermann and Dr. Fastovsky both point out, that’s because they take a certain amount of lateral thinking to invent.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2022
Instead he tends to construct elaborate works of lateral thinking in his columns, moving from the general to the particular and back again, in amused pursuit of the perfect riff.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 3, 2019
"Bear in mind, this is the end result of thousands of hours of work, testing, and lateral thinking by all the best guys at JPL."
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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