think out
Example Sentences
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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
“I love the Catholic Church and I always will, but I felt I needed more freedom to think out religious positions than I could have in the Roman Church,” he said at the time.
From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2022
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
When he went back to Proteus, the latter had to think out other ways of disposing of him.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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