nonthinking

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Adjective
  • To stay in that state of unthinking presence was like walking a tightrope only to suddenly look down, panic, and come plunging back to Earth.
    Michael Pollan, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
  • There’s the interest in Britney Spears and pop icons who had been assumed to be vacant, unthinking ingénues.
    Brandon Tensley, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
Adjective
  • Away from the irrational exuberance, there are still sensible investments to be made.
    Mikael Johnsson, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The move would be both economically irrational and morally obtuse.
    Ruth Jean-Marie, Time, 3 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • And not because people are unintelligent — quite the opposite.
    JJ Rosen, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Nov. 2025
  • The life of an unattractive and unintelligent young woman living in a dreary backwater in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
    New York Times, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Mid-century collective behavior theories considered social movements to be nonrational, spontaneous events occurring during moments of social and cultural breakdown.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Bainbridge knew about secrets and unreasoning shame.
    Christopher Tayler, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Let sound political prescience but take the place of an unreasoning prejudice, and this will be done.
    Frederick Douglass, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2017
Adjective
  • The Fourth Amendment protects people against unreasonable searches and seizures.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Those are clear violations of the Fourth Amendment’s safeguards against unreasonable searches and seizures, which were adopted to prevent the exercise of arbitrary government power.
    Yohuru Williams, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2026
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“Nonthinking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonthinking. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.

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