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think tank

NOUN
research organization
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Kim Parker, director of social trends research at the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan think tank, said Americans are making pragmatic decisions about eldercare.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 23, 2026

“Just about every other major American city has a policy and research think tank dedicated to pursuing ideas that could make the city better,” Hadar recently wrote, calling for L.A. to have its own.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2026

She was previously a civil servant and ran the New Economics Foundation think tank.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2026

The Swiss People’s Party put forward the referendum and framed it as a sustainability initiative, according to researchers at the Migration Policy Institute, an independent nonprofit think tank based in Washington, D.C.

From Barron's • Jun. 19, 2026

Mr. Golden, still getting maximum usage from his beloved Grade Sorter, raved about the design to one of his former classmates, the director of a big city think tank in Richmond, Virginia.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles




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