- a variation of think piece.
thinkpiece
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
And here’s Barney Ronay’s pre-match thinkpiece on England’s need to unshackle themselves in the here and now:
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2021
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
Safe spaces may be the subject of many a mocking recent thinkpiece, but these days they are legitimately hard to come by.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2015
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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