thinkers

noun

plural of thinker
1
as in geniuses
a very smart person many of our most renowned thinkers gathered for the symposium

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2
as in minds
the part of a person that feels, thinks, perceives, wills, and especially reasons loves crossword puzzles, bridge, and other pastimes that makes her use the old thinker

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Recent Examples of thinkers Brainstorm Tech International will convene CEOs and founders, technologists and investors, thinkers and doers to tackle the challenge of turning technological promise into lasting business and societal value. — Alex Capri, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026 Management thinkers such as Peter Drucker reinforced this, defining a business's core purpose as creating customers. — Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026 Kashmir’s Shaiva Hindu thinkers produced some of South Asia’s most influential texts on consciousness. — Peter Dziedzic, The Conversation, 30 July 2026 The Sparks need to not hire college wonders — no Cori Close — and enlist some good old-fashioned WNBA veteran thinkers and evaluators and leaders. — Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026 Some of these thinkers were good friends; a few were hardly acquainted. — Emily Eakin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026 Yet for some thinkers today the involuntary dispersion of the Jews (galut or golah) is articulated as being inherently different from the voluntary exile of the Jews (diaspora or tfutsot). — Literary Hub, 24 July 2026 In his heyday in 18th-century England and Europe, naturalist George Forster was a popular figure who influenced scientists, poets, and other thinkers. — Monitor Reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 23 July 2026 This year’s event features some of today’s most influential thinkers and entertainers, among them Gloria Steinem, Cole Escola, Wynton Marsalis, and Parker Posey, in conversation with the magazine’s writers and editors. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 22 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thinkers
  1. geniuses
  2. minds
  3. wizards
  4. intellects
  5. brains
  6. psyches
Noun
  • Broadly speaking, these kinds of stories — powered by a stop-them-before-they-kill-again clock, making their antagonists out to be finicky geniuses or horror movie monsters instead of opportunistic mediocrities — strike me as a low form of fiction.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026
  • To get around this, as Anne Hathaway so eloquently explains, the IMAX tech geniuses placed mirrors onto the sides of the cameras, so the actors could see each other and maintain a natural acting flow — ingenious stuff.
    — Benny Har-Even, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of geniuses
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  • Whatever was in the minds of people like Bernie Sanders and AOC, at a time when the likelihood of Democrats winning the House and possibly the Senate was real, is just the thing that could put the kibosh on the whole scenario in the 2026 midterms.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Many of the images provoked director name-checking in viewers' minds — Was this from Wieland Wagner in 1951?
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of minds
Noun
  • Oh, this is the Wizards Guild of America, an entirely different organization of wizards.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The wizards did have some help from legacy actors, including Jennifer Stone as Harper Finkle and Gregg Sulkin as Mason Greyback, in the closer.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of wizards
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  • Women are compelled to suppress their desires, intellects, and emotions in Gilead.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
  • While the likes of Philo and Trotter have expanded upon the idea by prioritizing people whose intellects align with their brand values, Jacquemus takes it to another level.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2026
Definition of intellects
Noun
  • Our brains hold onto beginnings and endings and lose the middle.
    — James Glover, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Across more than 140 species, primates that ate fruit had larger brains on average than their meat- or leaf-eating peers.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of brains
Noun
  • Rather than the standard psychological insights of TV’s many homicide detectives, Graham possesses a virtually psychic ability to put himself into killers’ twisted psyches.
    — Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 15 June 2026
  • Federal immigration officers made more than 4,000 arrests and shot multiple people, two fatally, before Operation Metro Surge wound down in February, leaving an imprint on the psyches of young children that could haunt them for years, mental health providers say.
    — Moriah Balingit, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
Definition of psyches

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