thinker

Example Sentences

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“He is the most long-term thinker I’ve ever been around,” says Kevin Demoff, president of team operations for Kroenke Sports and Entertainment, his umbrella company.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Influential iconoclastic thinker Richard Dawkins was then pilloried for suggesting that perhaps it already has.

From Slate • May 25, 2026

For more than 500 years, Leonardo da Vinci has been admired as a brilliant artist, inventor, and thinker whose talents seemed far ahead of his time.

From Science Daily • May 4, 2026

It’s a stalemate that even a clever strategist would struggle mightily to resolve, and there is no evidence that Vance is an especially strategic thinker.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2026

In that letter Jefferson had mentioned Adams in passing as a retrograde thinker opposed to all forms of progress, one of the “ancients” rather than “moderns.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis