ADJ
- deep, hard, serious
- This topic requires a lot of deep thinking
- good
- Yes, we'll phone them instead?that's good thinking (= a good idea)
- clear, logical
- muddled
- quick
- forward
- The school would have made better use of the money with a little forward thinking
- positive
- abstract, analytical, critical
- creative, independent, innovative, original
- lateral
- wishful
- His claims to be a millionaire are just wishful thinking
QUANT
- piece
- a brilliant piece of lateral thinking
VERB + THINKING
- do
- We have some hard thinking to do before we agree to the plan
- apply
- The book shows you how to apply critical thinking to your studies
PREP
- ~ behind
- It was difficult to see what the thinking was behind their eventual decision
ADJ
- contemporary, current, modern
- fresh, new
- conventional, old, traditional
- divergent
- government
- Labour, Republican, etc.
- economic, educational, historical, political, scientific, etc.
- Traditional educational thinking placed importance on learning by rote
- feminist, socialist, etc.
- military, strategic
VERB + THINKING
- develop, shape
- clarify, explain
- change
- They are unlikely to have changed their thinking so soon
- dominate
- His writings on motorized warfare dominated strategic thinking in the 1930s
PREP
- in … ~
- contemporary trends in feminist thinking
- ~ about/on
- What is the current Conservative thinking on social security?
PHRASES
- a shift in sb's thinking
- There's been a shift in government thinking on genetically-modified food
- to sb's way of thinking
- (= in sb's opinion) To my way of thinking, it would just be a massive waste of money