thought-provoking
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This can be thought-provoking or entertaining, and often holds power to account in the same way mainstream journalists do.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
For a while we had fun, slipping into an easy rhythm, having thought-provoking conversations and sharing things about our upbringing that affect us today and ways to break cycles.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2025
But I was also told something else that was thought-provoking by a Silicon Valley figure - that it doesn't matter whether there really is a bubble or if it bursts.
From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025
A weekly look at our most colorful, thought-provoking and original feature stories on the business of life.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025
Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Showboat of 1927 was a turning point in this respect, demonstrating what a well-written, clearly structured musical with a thought-provoking plot could be.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.