think out
Example Sentences
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“That allowed us to think out of the box.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
The tight budget for the projects, he said, sometimes sent them back to the drawing board, allowed them to think out of the box and led to new innovations.
From BBC • Nov. 3, 2024
“I don’t do character development. I don’t … think out the plot in advance,” DiCamillo said.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 2024
“You can design a composite in many ways. You can think out of the box, you have a lot of flexibility in engineering it.”
From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2023
“Do you know what it means to think out of the box?” he asks.
From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
