outside the box
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In her view, “I’m going to tell you that the president is thinking outside the box, and sometimes we’ve got to think outside the box to get something done.”
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
"We need to think outside the box," Dave Robertson, Labour MP for Lichfield, Burntwood and the Villages in Staffordshire.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Hugh Ferris: In an attempt to think outside the box, I'm picking Justin Herbert of the Chargers.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Or, they could think outside the box — literally.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
After all, they can’t be outside the box; we know that they are restricted to a certain volume, because if they were outside the box, we would not be looking at them.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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