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an organization that consists of a group of people who think of new ideas on a particular subject or who give advice about what should be done
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Recent Examples of think tanks
Atlas Network’s early partnerships with Venezuelan think tanks date back to the 1980s.
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Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
To carry out her vision, McMahon has brought on at least 20 political appointees from ultraconservative think tanks and advocacy groups eager to de-emphasize public schools, which have educated students for roughly 200 years.
—Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 8 Oct. 2025
Black delivered that report before the management committee of EXXON, who purposefully buried those conclusions and continued to fund lobbyists, think tanks, and politicians who vociferously denied the reality of anthropogenic climate change.
—Ed Simon
september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
Several think tanks and school choice advocacy groups, such as the Heritage Foundation, have ranked Arkansas' accounts program as among the best in the nation.
—Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2025
The report tabulates the lifetime costs of each goal, tapping data from federal agencies, think tanks and industry groups.
—USA Today, 21 Sep. 2025
In turn, the Koch brothers supported climate denial think tanks, while Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox News nightly broadcasts worked overtime to convince Americans that both climate change and COVID-19 were hoaxes or that vaccines were ineffective or unsafe.
—Michael E. Mann, Time, 17 Sep. 2025
This generally applies to the think tanks and generally excludes media sites like the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg and Reuters, all of which are listed at the end.
—Ken Roberts, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Critics, particularly from libertarian and fiscally conservative think tanks, have long derided the plan as overly ambitious and unnecessary.
—Tina Li, Sacbee.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
To carry out her vision, McMahon has brought on at least 20 political appointees from ultraconservative think tanks and advocacy groups eager to de-emphasize public schools, which have educated students for roughly 200 years.
—Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 8 Oct. 2025
Black delivered that report before the management committee of EXXON, who purposefully buried those conclusions and continued to fund lobbyists, think tanks, and politicians who vociferously denied the reality of anthropogenic climate change.
—Ed Simon
september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
Several think tanks and school choice advocacy groups, such as the Heritage Foundation, have ranked Arkansas' accounts program as among the best in the nation.
—Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2025
The report tabulates the lifetime costs of each goal, tapping data from federal agencies, think tanks and industry groups.
—USA Today, 21 Sep. 2025
In turn, the Koch brothers supported climate denial think tanks, while Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox News nightly broadcasts worked overtime to convince Americans that both climate change and COVID-19 were hoaxes or that vaccines were ineffective or unsafe.
—Michael E. Mann, Time, 17 Sep. 2025
This generally applies to the think tanks and generally excludes media sites like the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg and Reuters, all of which are listed at the end.
—Ken Roberts, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Critics, particularly from libertarian and fiscally conservative think tanks, have long derided the plan as overly ambitious and unnecessary.
—Tina Li, Sacbee.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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“Think tanks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/think%20tanks. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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