think piece
- an article analyzing and giving the background of a news event, often with the author's opinions and forecast for the future.
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Compare editorial, news story.
Origin of think piece
First recorded in 1940–45
Also called dope story.
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Idioms and Phrases with think-piece
think piece
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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