think out
Example Sentences
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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
So I think it was really refreshing that Mike Shur and Michael Ian Black were willing to think out loud about the evolution of how they thought about this, and what they did.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2023
“I think out of our entire club team, two kids aren’t going to the Australia versus Ireland game,” Gerrard Ivins, a coach at the Central Coast Mariners said.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2023
“I love the Catholic Church and I always will, but I felt I needed more freedom to think out religious positions than I could have in the Roman Church,” he said at the time.
From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2022
“Do you know what it means to think out of the box?” he asks.
From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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