thinking cap
Example Sentences
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Then put on your short-term thinking cap for a moment.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 11, 2025
It’s noir with a social conscience, noir with its thinking cap on.
From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2023
It’s the biggest week of the high school football season, so let me peek into my crystal ball, put on my thinking cap and come up with some predictions for the biggest games.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2021
The story, concocted from clichés that were already droopy when they appeared in almost every other jukebox musical ever written, does not require you to put your thinking cap on.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2018
“Now you have your thinking cap on, Naheed,” her mother said.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
