think aloud

1. Speak one's thoughts audibly, as in We need flour, sugar, butter—I'm just thinking aloud. [Early 1700s]

Example Sentences

They wrote in that “teachers are encouraged to have a ‘think aloud’ moment to ask students how it feels when they don’t just ‘like’ but ‘like like’ someone.”

From Los Angeles Times

The ex-president tends to think aloud and let us in on his deliberations.

From Los Angeles Times

Will we in the media allow them to think aloud without seizing on every hesitation or apparent contradiction with what someone else in their party said months earlier?

From BBC

When reading to your children, stop and think aloud.

From Slate

Dr. Ericsson, who received his doctorate in 1976, conducted his early research on “think-aloud protocols,” in which subjects were invited to think aloud as they solved an 8-puzzle, a kind of two-dimensional Rubik’s Cube.

From Washington Post