I. noun
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be right in saying/thinking etc
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I think I’m right in saying they once employed 2000 people.
joined-up thinking
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the need for joined-up thinking between departments
lateral thinking
mislead sb into believing/thinking etc sth
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Don’t be misled into thinking that scientific research is easy.
positive thinking
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Many people believe that positive thinking can help your recovery from serious illnesses.
quick thinking
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Robertson’s quick thinking had saved the little girl’s life.
sb can’t help feeling/thinking/wondering etc sth
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I can’t help feeling that there has been a mistake.
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I couldn’t help thinking about the past.
wishful thinking
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I think she rather likes me. But maybe that’s just wishful thinking.
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■ ADJECTIVE
critical
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But critical thinking continues beyond perception - towards the actions that people can take to gain control over their lives.
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Although this trigger, like other triggers, presents open-ended problematic situations, critical thinking does not occur spontaneously.
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There are those who feel uncomfortable with the exposure critical thinking brings.
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To show how to apply critical thinking to your studies.
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The National Curriculum offers an opportunity for a school to engage in critical thinking about practice.
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First, at its core is the idea that critical thinking is a particular kind of intellectual activity in its own right.
current
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Tandem's move reinforces current thinking which sees microkernel system software as very much an up and coming trend across the industry.
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In medicine, however, it is precisely the current thinking in the field that one is after.
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The current thinking is to sell off freight services first.
lateral
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Post-war lateral thinking solved the problem by abolishing the school, but the building survived that, too.
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Arrangement of ideas on the board provides a stimulus for new ideas and lateral thinking . 4.
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Others include lateral thinking , straight and crooked thinking, potential problem analysis, rational decision-making, and so on.
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So a little lateral thinking was called for.
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And that very excess of safety inspired some bright Vadinamians in to a galaxy-class piece of lateral thinking .
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It was a peculiar form of lateral thinking , inspired by instinct.
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The model represents most of de Bono's ideas on lateral thinking .
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Hudevad. Lateral thinking brings environmental benefits.
new
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Slessor believed that the new thinking met Britain's interests in both the short and long term.
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In this way the original insights of New Right thinking have acquired for themselves a bad name.
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This is currently the main thrust of new thinking about Bach.
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Communicating ideas Memos are often used to put forward a view or to provide new thinking on a subject.
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The new thinking in Brussels is that labour laws should focus on general objectives and leave details to national governments.
political
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The political thinking behind the break-up is less predictable.
strategic
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Isn't this what the core of strategic thinking is all about?
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Moreover, it is only recently that some have engaged in such strategic thinking at all.
wishful
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Lomas, for instance, finds his pleasure in wishful thinking about the war.
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Personally I see this as wishful thinking rather than practical logic.
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Mere logic and abstinence from wishful thinking had enabled Milner to summarise the story of the next sixty years.
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Coping with waste will always be hard, and hypocrisy and wishful thinking will not make it easier.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I wasn't thinking
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Sorry, I wasn't thinking . Do you want a cup too?
be thinking of sb
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He felt he ought now to be thinking of writing a book - but on what?
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He was thinking of settling in this land of freedom, he told me as I sat down opposite.
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I was thinking of a text illustrated with his photographs: a memorial.
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I was thinking of getting in touch.
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It was obvious to Celestine that he was thinking of something else.
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On the way back home he stopped off to look at a house he was thinking of buying.
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She was so embarrassed she said she was thinking of changing her last name.
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They were thinking of wives and little ones far away, and wondering if they would ever see them again.
forward planning/thinking
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A bit of forward planning would have ensured a sum was put aside in the budget.
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A little bit of forward thinking years ago has put the Eagles in terrific position now.
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But he does want to stimulate constructive forward thinking.
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Findings relate to expenditure, degree of forward planning, objectives, workforce attitudes, management awareness and use of consultancies.
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His introduction to the art of place-kicking, however, was hardly a result of deep forward planning.
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In each of the schools, the library was clearly still high on the agenda for forward planning and review.
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It is at this point that proper forward planning and the use of the time log become of crucial importance.
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The message which emerges is clearly one of forward planning to avoid any undesirable over-involvement in management decisions.
get to thinking/wondering sth
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In any case, she had now got to thinking of other things.
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Then they got to thinking that maybe you were dead.
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There's blood in your body, and I get to thinking about what would happen if your blood froze.
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When you've been around guys like Mr. B. awhile, you get to thinking the way they think.
sb can be forgiven for thinking/believing/feeling etc sth
sth doesn't bear thinking about
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The reaction I'll get when my parents find out doesn't even bear thinking about.
to my way of thinking
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I never could understand what she saw in him - a bit thin and weedy, to my way of thinking.
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The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature.
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The frigid lands, to my way of thinking, provide good support of the Catastrophe Theory of Earth's evolution.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His statements closely reflect government thinking .
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The report goes against current thinking on what is best for working parents.
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There has been a change in thinking in terms of the influence of diet on the disease.
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Although this trigger, like other triggers, presents open-ended problematic situations, critical thinking does not occur spontaneously.
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But the dynamics of his thinking have never been easy to explain.
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However, they had little effect on the mainstream of Conservative thinking .
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Opportunity for mathematical experience and the development of mathematical thinking might seem unlikely to occur readily in the Home Corner.
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These show how pupils' mathematical thinking may be inferred from what they do and say.
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This is currently the main thrust of new thinking about Bach.
II. adjective
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■ NOUN
man
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I wondered how it came to pass that a thinking man bore the prejudices of his unthinking parents into the future?
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Northumberland had more use for him; he was temperamentally closer to this coldly thinking man than to his own son.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I wasn't thinking
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Sorry, I wasn't thinking . Do you want a cup too?
be thinking of sb
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He felt he ought now to be thinking of writing a book - but on what?
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He was thinking of settling in this land of freedom, he told me as I sat down opposite.
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I was thinking of a text illustrated with his photographs: a memorial.
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I was thinking of getting in touch.
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It was obvious to Celestine that he was thinking of something else.
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On the way back home he stopped off to look at a house he was thinking of buying.
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She was so embarrassed she said she was thinking of changing her last name.
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They were thinking of wives and little ones far away, and wondering if they would ever see them again.
get to thinking/wondering sth
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In any case, she had now got to thinking of other things.
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Then they got to thinking that maybe you were dead.
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There's blood in your body, and I get to thinking about what would happen if your blood froze.
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When you've been around guys like Mr. B. awhile, you get to thinking the way they think.
sb can be forgiven for thinking/believing/feeling etc sth
sth doesn't bear thinking about
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The reaction I'll get when my parents find out doesn't even bear thinking about.
to my way of thinking
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I never could understand what she saw in him - a bit thin and weedy, to my way of thinking.
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The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature.
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The frigid lands, to my way of thinking, provide good support of the Catastrophe Theory of Earth's evolution.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Nigel knew that he would be the choice of any thinking woman, in spite of Jo's remarks.
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No huge feat, let's be honest, although Paul Merton is indeed emerging as the thinking woman's Chippendale.
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Persons, for Descartes, are mental or immaterial thinking substances.
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That's often the trouble with thinking machines.