think out
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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
“I don’t do character development. I don’t … think out the plot in advance,” DiCamillo said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
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
Rosaleen made a little humming sound, I think out of awkwardness, but eventually she stopped.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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