How to Use critical thinking in a Sentence

critical thinking

noun
  • So my own critical thinking was pushed down.
    — Ben Morse, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
  • To do this, a person needs to be skilled at critical thinking.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Your skills come down to the sharpness of your critical thinking.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2026
  • And play helps boost problem solving and critical thinking skills.
    — Pamela Brill, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The sowing of confusion seemed to shut down any and all critical thinking skills.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Students can hone and apply their critical thinking skills across pretty much any area of study.
    — Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Films must get a chance to land with audiences and trigger critical thinking.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Skills like critical thinking, which employers expressed a clear need for, aren’t new.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Your critical thinking is a little bit sharper.
    — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
  • The guest must use their critical thinking to determine the culprit, with the truth revealed at the end of each case.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
  • If critical thinking can be pushed aside, power faces less resistance.
    — Randi Weingarten, Fortune, 6 May 2026
  • Ideal for kids ages five and up, this traffic jam game encourages critical thinking.
    — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 2 Dec. 2024
  • And there are a whole host of concerns about AI’s impact on critical thinking.
    — Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Take turns reading, discuss the story and ask questions to build critical thinking skills.
    — Linetta Jackson Special To The Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The struggle of critical thinking is the important part.
    — Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 15 Jan. 2026
  • No one involved, if Saturday is to be the judge, has shown a desire for critical thinking.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The other is that critical thinking is a crucial skill, ideally practiced on your feet.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2024
  • But that reflects a lack of critical thinking, which is, well, critical to our social well-being.
    — David A. Brenner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2024
  • These examples remind us that true critical thinking begins at home.
    — Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Let’s pay attention, and not just abdicate hard work and critical thinking to the butler.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • In a world of rapid innovation, critical thinking is not just an academic skill.
    — Ben Churchill, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2025
  • This is where critical thinking and systems thinking must work together.
    — Thomas Lim, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • George also has to take a two-hour critical thinking course and an eight-hour ethics and legal aspects of nursing within the next six months.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2026
  • In the face of growing conformity, critical thinking skills are needed more than ever.
    — Kenneth Seeskin, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
  • This would help develop their own critical thinking and reasoning skills.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Empathy does not overwhelm our critical thinking or blind us to moral clarity.
    — Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The study predicts an increase in the need for creativity and critical thinking.
    — Thanh Pham, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • His strategic and critical thinking will leave an indelible mark on our company.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Give us a public television that allows for risk-taking and critical thinking.
    — Anthony Kaufman, IndieWire, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The questions, in and of themselves, are lessons in active listening and critical thinking.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026

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