How to Use think piece in a Sentence

think piece

noun
  • Binders and binders full of film think pieces.
    — Mara Reinstein, HollywoodReporter, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Yes, many protest and march and write outraged think pieces like this one.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Was the think piece and hot take economy about to go through the roof?
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2023
  • One that will shock, inspire, beget hundreds of think pieces.
    — Kenzie Bryant, vanityfair.com, 25 Aug. 2017
  • By the way, the show is not a think piece about white nationalism.
    — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Love for the character has sparked plenty of memes and think pieces over the years.
    — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 14 June 2019
  • Book reviews, profiles, think pieces on whiskey and bacon and trucks, etc.
    — Eva Holland, Longreads, 2 Apr. 2018
  • And there has been more than one think piece this year about the impact of her style on both women and men.
    — Vogue, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Here is where the Goldman report becomes more than a think piece.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Whether this was or was not a feminist series is a question that still prompts think pieces.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
  • Recall the flood of think pieces a few years ago stressing the urgent need to teach young people to code.
    — Felicia Appenteng, semafor.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The experts have been consulted, and the think pieces have urged us to prepare ourselves.
    — Rebecca Panovka, Harper's Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
  • There were think pieces about is this the beginning or the end of this African woman’s career?
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Stand on your seats and give it up for a genre that refused to flatline, even when the think pieces already had the casket picked out.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2025
  • There all these think piece about Chessy being a lesbian awakening for a lot of women.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The comment was met with swift backlash from romance readers, with a multitude of think pieces to boot.
    — Samantha Leach, Glamour, 4 Dec. 2019
  • That’s not something that can be addressed fully in anything but the most jeremiad-esque of think pieces.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Since then, there have been many hot takes and think pieces on the topic, as well as awkward attempts at coming up with something new.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appetit Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Kardashian’s outfit outwits them all, as the ultimate think piece of the night.
    — Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Numerous think pieces and hot takes have already dissected how podcasts have eaten the world in the past few years.
    — Rachel King, Fortune, 29 June 2019
  • That twist enraged disappointed fans and launched a thousand think pieces about how her arc went so terribly wrong.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 June 2019
  • The drafting of a think piece on the rainbow-washing of Pride and its alienation from its activist origins.
    — Zach Zimmerman, The New Yorker, 23 June 2022
  • Research papers and think pieces have been documenting the decline of print media for decades.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Since then, think pieces have popped up across the internet about the validity of Roan’s call to action.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2025
  • To pretend that one think piece will change the system is as innocently naïve as those who enter the franchise looking for love.
    — Justin Kirkland, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2018
  • But Gibson seems to have gotten his comeback, regardless of any number of outraged think pieces.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 24 July 2018
  • Frankenstein’s 100th anniversary is this year, so the think pieces are plentiful.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 2 June 2018
  • King made a sequel about a lovable Peruvian bear into a think piece about human rights and compassion.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Lizzo might have won Valentine’s Day with her special think piece on Instagram.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 15 Feb. 2022
  • His whole existence has become a think piece, and that on-the-nose quality extends throughout the story tangle.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2019

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