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  • noun rare A member of a think tank

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Examples

  • Douglas Murray – thinktanker and author of Neoconservatism: Why We Need It – and Paul Goodman, ex-MP, ex-Telegraph leader writer, have drawn muskets over Goodman's refusal to fall into line over gay marriage.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • Because it posted what has become a controversial profile of Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, rightwing thinktanker and son of the famed journalist Christopher Hitchens.

    Diary 2010

  • Well, yes, I'm sure it will, as clever Matthew Taylor, No 10 adviser turned thinktanker, suggests in a smart explanation for the impasse on Comment is Free.

    The Guardian World News Michael White 2011

  • "No one cares about thinktanks," said a thinktanker who came out to watch.

    The Guardian World News Michael White 2010

  • "No one cares about thinktanks," said a thinktanker who came out to watch.

    The Guardian World News Michael White 2010

  • Charles Lloyd on "Lloyd's Prayer," and post-M-BASE saxist / thinktanker

    independent.com stories 2009

  • Naval Academy), and Yoo (lifelong attorney and thinktanker) never were fortunate enough to learn manly-man military leadership lessons.

    Frank Naif: CIA Director Panetta: Reform Suffers for Bush Apparatchiks and Spy Chiefs 2009

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  • A person with a crude superabundance of midnight oil to burn.

    December 20, 2012