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View synonyms for think piece

think piece

or think·piece

[ thingk pees ]

noun

  1. Journalism. Also called dope story. an article, as in a magazine or journal, analyzing and giving the background of a news event or public issue, usually with the author's opinions: Compare editorial, news story.

    Our assessments in this think piece are inherently subjective.

  2. an artistic work, film, etc., that stimulates thought and discussion:

    a cinematic think piece on the meaning of “heroism.”



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Word History and Origins

Origin of think piece1

First recorded in 1940–45
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Idioms and Phrases

An article that presents news analysis, background material, and the author's opinions, as in Her goal was to write think pieces but the editor kept assigning crime stories . [c. 1940]
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Example Sentences

There have been a lot of think pieces about the transformative effects of the internet, and most of them began with the assumption that the biggest change is the discourse is more open than it’s ever been, that more people have a seat at the table.

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It was the scene that launched a thousand HBO subscriptions—and one misguided, mammary-centric New Yorker think piece.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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