thought-provoking
adjective
: causing people to think seriously about something
a thought-provoking article
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They can be thought-provoking or honor the city’s history, but some pieces defy easy categorization.
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Jeff Suess, Cincinnati Enquirer, 11 Dec. 2025
Amid the chaos of juggling gift ideas, holiday gatherings and seasonal festivities, December’s full moon, which will be a supermoon, arrives on Dec. 4, reaching its peak in the thought-provoking sign of Gemini at exactly 6:14 p.m. ET.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025
And breathing is the theme of a thought-provoking art show now wrapping up its final days at UC Davis’ Manetti Shrem Museum.
—Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 20 Nov. 2025
But Brennan and Murphy find thought-provoking tension in these imbalances, contrasting our disinterest in keeping up with America’s imperialist destruction with our never-ending fascination with Gein’s brutality and depravity.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
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Jeff Suess, Cincinnati Enquirer, 11 Dec. 2025
Amid the chaos of juggling gift ideas, holiday gatherings and seasonal festivities, December’s full moon, which will be a supermoon, arrives on Dec. 4, reaching its peak in the thought-provoking sign of Gemini at exactly 6:14 p.m. ET.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025
And breathing is the theme of a thought-provoking art show now wrapping up its final days at UC Davis’ Manetti Shrem Museum.
—Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 20 Nov. 2025
But Brennan and Murphy find thought-provoking tension in these imbalances, contrasting our disinterest in keeping up with America’s imperialist destruction with our never-ending fascination with Gein’s brutality and depravity.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
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“Thought-provoking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thought-provoking. Accessed 18 Dec. 2025.
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