make one think
Example Sentences
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The happy-faced “One Shot” wouldn’t make one think immediately of the grim-visaged “Adolescence”—one of the year’s better series, by the way—but they do have the same continuous-shooting conceit and same wizard-like director.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
The contextual triggers of him being a footballer make one think of FIFA.
From The Verge • Sep. 1, 2021
Photographs and video of the devastation make one think of a war zone, or the wake of a category-5 hurricane.
From Washington Times • Dec. 14, 2017
It should make one think about the flexibility of the mind and what it means to consider one’s species the apex of creation.
From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2016
He made notes to himself about the strong emotions that make one think about God and heaven.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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