thinkers

plural of thinker

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Recent Examples of thinkers Classical thinkers used it to describe the capacity to feel a powerful impulse and choose not to act on it. Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026 Tradition of separation The idea of separate spheres of spiritual and secular functions and authority was advanced by religious and secular thinkers to benefit both religion and the state. Steven K. Green, The Conversation, 2 July 2026 Her generation was one of thinkers, politically committed to defining how individuals were to be shaped as citizens of a civilized nation. Literary Hub, 1 July 2026 The program of participants brings together a cross-disciplinary group of artists and thinkers. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 June 2026 These Virginia aristocrats had been raised on the same Enlightenment thinkers—David Hume and Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire—as John Adams and Samuel Adams had. James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026 While agile new companies can offer top AI thinkers massive equity upside, Hassabis’s confidence is rooted in Google’s structural advantages, including its unparalleled ecosystem of data, integrated hardware, and sheer computing power. Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 23 June 2026 In recent years, writers, thinkers, and podcasters have advanced rival prescriptions for restoring the economic mobility that twentieth-century Americans came to see as their birthright. Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 22 June 2026 These days, those same thinkers describe their object of study as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—and universities, governmental agencies, and independent groups are devoting serious resources to finally getting to the bottom of whether extraterrestrials really are out there. Erin Vanderhoof, Vanity Fair, 19 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thinkers
Noun
  • The two budding geniuses would sit in Charles’ apartment for hours, talking music theory and analyzing records, though Jones’s curiosity occasionally exhausted Charles.
    Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 3 July 2026
  • You have been fired or laid off, and your replacement immediately takes the company to unprecedented heights while receiving the universal praise reserved for the geniuses of your craft.
    Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 17 June 2026
Noun
  • Social media and technology firms employ some of the brightest minds in the world and increasingly sophisticated AI tools to maximize user engagement.
    Paul Jester, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026
  • Supply chains weren’t at the forefront of the minds of healthcare organizations before 2020.
    Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 8 July 2026
Noun
  • After climbing the Azkaban Escape Tower to the top, repel-style, young wizards-in-training, Clark and Emily Friscia, were ready to go home.
    Greg Harutunian, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
  • And two other high-flying AI wizards — Anthropic and OpenAI — are working on their own mega offerings.
    Evan Clark, Footwear News, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • The researchers’ initial hypothesis was that the squids’ brains were somehow denied energy during development, which limited growth, but that wasn’t the only possible answer.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 July 2026
  • Could the generations growing up with their brains hooked to endless video feeds be developing some kind of novel, as-yet-undetectable cognitive brilliance?
    Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
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

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“Thinkers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thinkers. Accessed 10 Jul. 2026.

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