THINKS Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

thinks

verb

present tense third-person singular of think

as in believes

to have as an opinion I think we should wait for someone to come help us out

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Recent Examples of thinks While there may be dissent about how much transparency is the right amount, no one thinks Warsh is going to deliver a lot of it Friday. — Brian Cheung, NBC news, 28 Aug. 2026 Corruption is what political scientists call a valence issue – almost everyone thinks corruption is bad, but not everyone agrees about how much of it there is. — Robert Boatright, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2026 According to Politico’s sources, the Commerce Secretary thinks the US needs to apply the tariffs broadly to prioritize reshoring the domestic supply chain. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026 Larry Magid, a longtime online-safety advocate who has advised Meta on safety issues and CEO of ConnectSafely, thinks the cigarette comparison only goes so far. — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026 As a result, Davies thinks that the compound shows the most promise for serious alcohol-use disorder, or for people with liver damage—even if those conditions are less likely to inspire Instagram ads. — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026 Jonas thinks SpaceX needs just eight pads to reach his 2040 forecast. — Sarah Min, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026 Taquet thinks more people should be vaccinated against shingles. — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 26 Aug. 2026 But with veterans like Bell and Taylor Rogers in the clubhouse, Shelton thinks too many managerial speeches could be overkill. — Dan Hayes, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for thinks

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Max Fondren, president of the ICEBreakers student group, said the organization believes the university's partnership with immigration authorities could negatively affect students.

— Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
Difficult People began during the Obama era, a context Klausner believes matters when people call the series prophetic.

— Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of believes

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Apple considers these high-confidence alerts that someone has specifically targeted you with unusually sophisticated spyware.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2026
In the film, the German documentary filmmaker considers the heady question of what the internet might be doing to us humans.

— Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of considers

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The Komlós conjecture imagines each person (or object) as an arrow of length 1 called a unit vector.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026
The show imagines communities centered on the Mississippi River, which flows through Minneapolis, and the installation echoes a riverbed, with platforms approximating islands.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of imagines

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Robotics have generated buzz among franchisees, but no single prominent use case has emerged that Yum deems worthy of chasing.

— John Kell, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2026
The government’s filing goes on to argue that citizen lawsuits were not intended to allow everyday citizens to enforce laws in ways that go against what the federal government deems is in the public interest.

— Sarah J. Morath, The Conversation, 3 Aug. 2026