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
Why, in a city where people think out of the box more than in other places, is there so much angst about public transportation?
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2023
But the technology also allows Kruger to expand her language and think out loud, which is more genuinely enlivening.
From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2022
I had to keep remembering what others took for granted; I had to think out what others felt.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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