food for thought

Example Sentences

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But it also contains this tidbit, food for thought today:

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Ahead of Tuesday night, Scotland's limp beginning isn't so much food for thought for Clarke, it's a veritable feast, a banquet of things to fix, in tactics, in formation, in selection, in psychology.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2025

It was a resounding win in every way, giving Arsenal and their manager Mikel Arteta - formerly Guardiola's assistant - a hefty helping of food for thought over the international break.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025

What is “Love is Blind” if not food for thought about your own desires and must-haves in a relationship?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

But it was food for thought: effective rhetoric need not always be fancy rhetoric.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith