Noun
Form your own opinions: don't let others do your thinking for you!
I've been doing some thinking about this, and I don't think you're right after all.
The school's curriculum encourages independent thinking.
A piece of quick thinking got us out of trouble.
I'd like to know your thinking on this.
What is the current thinking on the subject? Adjective
Chess is a thinking man's game.
it's surprising to find thinking people who believe such nonsense
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As Turing noted in his paper, the imitation game does an excellent job of testing if a computer can imitate the language-generation process, but the relationship between imitating language and thinking is still an open question.—Edmon Begoli, IEEE Spectrum, 7 May 2024 Dropping the type 2 component from the vaccine would end those cases as well, the thinking went.—Byleslie Roberts, science.org, 7 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for thinking
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