think out
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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“That allowed us to think out of the box.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
The tight budget for the projects, he said, sometimes sent them back to the drawing board, allowed them to think out of the box and led to new innovations.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2024
“You can design a composite in many ways. You can think out of the box, you have a lot of flexibility in engineering it.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
“Now to catch a big fish at my lake, you’ve got to think out of the box,” Brown says.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2022
Rosaleen made a little humming sound, I think out of awkwardness, but eventually she stopped.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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