How to Use school of thought in a Sentence

school of thought

noun phrase
  • There’s a certain school of thought that says no.
    — Stephanie A, The Conversation, 22 Jan. 2026
  • There is a school of thought that Richardson just needs a change of scenery to blossom.
    — Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Defying norms forces people to tap into a novel school of thought.
    — Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 19 Apr. 2026
  • There’s a school of thought that the Leafs should start the teardown this offseason, no matter what.
    — Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Maybe that school of thought will change if the line on the chart below continues to move in an upward direction.
    — Stuart James, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • One option includes a brief connection to a sixth-century school of thought and a lot of reading.
    — Noah White, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Then there’s the school of thought that doing it right means having the highest percentage of successful challenges.
    — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The Thunder earned that benefit of the doubt over the course of the season, though, according to Brown’s school of thought.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Her creativity was unencumbered by the more traditional school of thought in footwear design at that time.
    — Tonya Blazio-Licorish, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The Toba catastrophe hypothesis was one prominent school of thought for many years.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The Toba catastrophe hypothesis was one prominent school of thought for many years.
    — Jayde N. Hirniak, The Conversation, 11 Sep. 2025
  • There's a school of thought that teams in this situation should simply prioritize the best guy available to maximize the chances of ending up with someone playable.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The other school of thought is that Martin — at 5-foot-11, 220 pounds — is going to be pushed around and that his speed is the only thing that puts him on the field.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier seems to adhere to that same school of thought, and his latest film is both a wonderful movie on its own and an even better one about making the damn things.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 28 Oct. 2025
  • There’s a school of thought that Liverpool will be better equipped to mount a serious challenge for the Champions League rather than domestic honours this season.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Her approach also aligns with an executive leadership school of thought that emotional regulation—not suppression—drives performance and trust.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2026
  • One school of thought holds that high levels of immigration and a robust social safety net are incompatible; natives don’t want to share their nation’s generosity with foreigners.
    — Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026
  • There is a school of thought that a team in Hamilton could siphon support from the league’s Toronto franchise, which plays just 40 miles from TD Coliseum.
    — Hailey Salvian, New York Times, 13 May 2026
  • To answer this question, Lam looks to the ancient Chinese philosopher Han Fei, an important proponent of the school of thought known as Legalism.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The stint at left-back may be temporary, and an attempt to cover up squad deficiencies, but the school of thought at Everton heading into the campaign was that last season’s Branthwaite and Tarkowski partnership was their best way forward.
    — Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2026
  • There is a school of thought that Arsenal already have enough midfield options, but their interest in Guimaraes, Alex Scott of Bournemouth and previously Tonali shows that manager Arteta feels differently.
    — Mark Carey, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • According to an emerging school of thought associated with Spanish exercise physiologist Iñigo San Millán, lactate levels are a key marker of mitochondrial health, which in turn is an important determinant of metabolic flexibility.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 5 Mar. 2026
  • LLMs are the foundation for generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT, and there’s been a school of thought that incorporating the technology into traditional recommendation systems can improve them.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Amid the World Economic Forum’s confab in Davos, Switzerland—where coalition building and global cooperation are usually central themes—Trump unfurled a Western Hemisphere First school of thought that has roots in a Cold War understanding of geopolitical stasis.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 21 Jan. 2026

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