How to Use think tank in a Sentence

think tank

noun
  • Here are two members of a left-leaning think tank.
    — NBC news, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Searchlight is a new think tank that has Democrat ties.
    — Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Searchlight is a new think tank that has Democrat ties.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Those ideas are key policy goals of the think tank McMahon helps run.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The Tax Foundation is a think tank that ranks state tax policies each year.
    — oregonlive, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Mike Pompeo, the former secretary of state, has joined a think tank.
    — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The board is a think tank that studies national business issues.
    — Andrew Moreau, Arkansas Online, 3 June 2021
  • Both of the nation’s biggest naval shipbuilders contribute to my think tank.
    — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The think tank’s report comes as high prices for many grocery items leave many households struggling to put food on the table.
    — Emily Pandise, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Galindo landed a well-paying gig at a new policy think tank in Madrid.
    — Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026
  • Instead, the right-wing think tank writes as if the whole $420 billion would be coming due all at once.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2022
  • That has included the hiring of an ombudsman from a rightward think tank.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Her husband worked for a private think tank and introduced her to Catholicism.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • This led my friends in the conservative think tank community to try and bring me back into the fold.
    — Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 10 May 2021
  • The think tank's map also shows Russian advances west of Novoselivske.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Stepaniuk fact-checks content for Facebook as part of her job at a think tank called VoxUkraine.
    — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Then, invite a select group of followers to a think tank or brainstorming session.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • This is a far more reliable blueprint for a party’s resurrection than anything drawn up at a think tank.
    — Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Seven Cabinet secretaries came from the think tank.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • As of now, Imam has no plans to create a think tank or a second campus, even though those had seemed like good ideas when applying for the grant.
    — Emma Green, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
  • But that audit focused squarely on the financial trail between Epstein and the think tank.
    — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 9 May 2026
  • Um, the, uh, the recommendations, uh, from, from the think tank include providing.
    — Leila Atassi, cleveland, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The think tank estimates the drop in windfall tax receipts from energy firms to be in the region of £7 billion.
    — Joe Mayes, Bloomberg.com, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Palmer used to be the president of a conservative think tank in Alabama.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Peter Kreko, who runs a Budapest think tank, told me that this is unprecedented.
    — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Ember is an energy think tank registered in England and Wales.
    — John M. Crisp, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The nonprofit think tank polled 1,200 taxpayers in late March.
    — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Social change tools once reserved for elites — academics, think tanks, publishers, media moguls — were now on everyone’s phones.
    — Henry De Sio, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
  • Here’s how the nonpartisan think tank estimates the law will affect 2026 take-home pay.
    — Mike Winters, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Racial bias and the overweening influence of money were cited by the pro-democracy think tank as part of the reason for the decline.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021

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