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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • News reports about a rising conservative think tank express concerns about its ties to the movement.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The legal battle has been cited in two think tank reports as an example of the regime’s use of foreign judiciaries to attain its ends.
    — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • This year alone, projects worth $40 billion have been launched under the scheme, according to the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank.
    — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Other politicians and think tanks have proposed extending chip controls to older chips and equipment as well.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Last month, Haley was tapped to chair the conservative Hudson Institute think tank.
    — Nicholas Kerr, ABC News, 13 May 2024
  • Project 2025 was organized by the Heritage Foundation, a prominent right-wing think tank.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Meanwhile Russia’s battlefield savvy was questioned this weekend by the Institute for the Study of War, a prominent think tank.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Crow also sits on the board of trustees for the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.
    — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2023
  • But even among the broader collection of think tanks, nonprofits and pundits on the author list, others have past controversies on the issue of race.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024
  • Both Cato and the Mackinac Center are libertarian-leaning think tanks.
    — Jeremiah Poff, Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Twenty states have implemented such bans, according to one think tank.
    — Arthur Jones Ii, ABC News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • According to a March 2024 study by American Progress, a think tank focused on progressive policy, the pandemic sparked a surge in entrepreneurship, startups, and new business formation.
    — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024

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