think out
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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“That allowed us to think out of the box.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
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
So I think it was really refreshing that Mike Shur and Michael Ian Black were willing to think out loud about the evolution of how they thought about this, and what they did.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2023
“You can design a composite in many ways. You can think out of the box, you have a lot of flexibility in engineering it.”
From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2023
“His line’s always busy. She won’t call him, anyway. I think out of everything she’s definitely most afraid of Stew. In that way I guess I’m no different.”
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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