think piece
noun
: a piece of writing meant to be thought-provoking and speculative that consists chiefly of background material and personal opinion and analysis
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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.
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Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2025
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
There all these think piece about Chessy being a lesbian awakening for a lot of women.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
The journalists followed, arriving for two or three days at a time to research think pieces about life in the northern Midwest, a region that has been known since the Reagan 1980s as America’s Rust Belt.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
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Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2025
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
There all these think piece about Chessy being a lesbian awakening for a lot of women.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
The journalists followed, arriving for two or three days at a time to research think pieces about life in the northern Midwest, a region that has been known since the Reagan 1980s as America’s Rust Belt.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
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“Think piece.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/think%20piece. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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