How to Use think tank in a Sentence

think tank

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  • British think tanks are not required to name their donors.
    — Kara Fox, CNN, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Instead, the right-wing think tank writes as if the whole $420 billion would be coming due all at once.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The Tax Foundation is a think tank that ranks state tax policies each year.
    — oregonlive, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Those ideas are key policy goals of the think tank McMahon helps run.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Stepaniuk fact-checks content for Facebook as part of her job at a think tank called VoxUkraine.
    — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Across Eastern Europe, the war is driving Cold War-era models out of storage, the think tank added.
    — Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The think tank’s report comes as high prices for many grocery items leave many households struggling to put food on the table.
    — Emily Pandise, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Rand is a research group and think tank, mostly funded by the U.S. government.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The think tank's map also shows Russian advances west of Novoselivske.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • And Ukrainian officials aren't wrong, the Institute for the Study of War think tank explains.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The think tank estimates the drop in windfall tax receipts from energy firms to be in the region of £7 billion.
    — Joe Mayes, Bloomberg.com, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The alliance has been born out of a series of three think tank meetings in 2023 on the future of European Film Markets.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 29 Nov. 2024
  • The Institute for the Study of War, a think tank that tracks the conflict, also said the withdrawal appeared genuine.
    — Sam Mednick and Yuras Karmanau, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The Guttmacher Institute is a reproductive health and rights think tank based in New York.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Um, the, uh, the recommendations, uh, from, from the think tank include providing.
    — Leila Atassi, cleveland, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Research from the Rand Corp., a nonpartisan think tank, found a similar trend for gun suicides in 2020.
    — Joe Murphy, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Palmer used to be the president of a conservative think tank in Alabama.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2023
  • That's according to a new report released Tuesday by the think tank Detroit Future City.
    — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2024
  • In war games run by the Pentagon and by Washington think tanks, the United States usually loses.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
  • That's still under development at the VW Cariad think tank.
    — Georg Kacher, Car and Driver, 10 Nov. 2022
  • It was previously revealed by the conservative think tank in March that the outside firm was hired.
    — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Dec. 2024
  • For any point of view on any issue of concern in American politics, somewhere think tank staff are hard at work proving the case.
    — Steve Larkin, The Week, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Consumer prices over that period climbed a total of 21.4%, the liberal-leaning think tank found.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 17 Oct. 2024
  • But Kris Ohleth, the leader of an offshore wind policy think tank, couldn’t help but be disappointed.
    — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Smith says Pew conducted this analysis after the response to a report the think tank put out last year that looked at the ubiquity of Asian restaurants in the United States.
    — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Support for the monarchy appears to be lower in Scotland, where a poll by the British Future think tank last month found that 45 percent of respondents wanted to keep it.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 2 June 2022
  • The show of 115 small paintings, all done outdoors, with the subject before the artist, is at the Custodia Foundation, a museum, archive, and think tank on rue de Lille in Paris.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Yes, but: At the think tank level, things get a little more interesting — there's way more talk about price regulations.
    — Caitlin Owens, Axios, 26 July 2024
  • And in nearly two dozen cities, shoplifting appeared to be on the rise, according to the Council on Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan think tank.
    — Isabelle Taft, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The Public Policy Institute of California, a think tank that conducts vigorous and objective research into vital state issues, is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a series of retrospective reports.
    — Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 13 Dec. 2024

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