- a variation of think piece.
thinkpiece
Britishnoun
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This isn’t one of those films that wants to be a thinkpiece.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Toxic masculinity may be a buzzword of this era — but David Fincher and Pitt took the concept on two decades ago more concisely than any thinkpiece can manage.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 25, 2019
There’s inevitable trepidation surrounding the release of the impossible-to-Google Us, writer-director Jordan Peele’s follow-up to Get Out, a film that was a box office smash, a thinkpiece generator, an Oscar-winner and a cultural phenomenon.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 2019
Whoever they are—lefty tweeters, emerging critics, the thinkpiece industry, or millennials and Gen Z at large—I’m probably a member.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2018
You can tell by the fact that every backlash thinkpiece starts off with thoroughly explaining that the author of said thinkpiece agrees that Cecil’s death was an atrocity and the hunter should go to prison.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2015
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