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- noun Plural form of
thinktank , an alternative form ofthink tank .
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Examples
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Another thing is that there are a lot of "thinktanks" and organizations with great-sounding names "Center for Truth" - I made that up - but that kind of thing - but in reality they are funded by particular groups with very specific agendas.
Archive 2008-10-01 WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2008
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Another thing is that there are a lot of "thinktanks" and organizations with great-sounding names "Center for Truth" - I made that up - but that kind of thing - but in reality they are funded by particular groups with very specific agendas.
media bias, science & critical thinking WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2008
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Such clones are now the part of every governing body - variously termed as 'thinktanks', or
The Times of India Anoop Kohli 2009
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But the numbers are beginning to head back up from that great slough of denial of the last two years, when the Kochs began channelling more money to climate doubting thinktanks and astro-turf groups.
Changing climate of Republican opinion doesn't agree with Tea Party 2011
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The thinktanks that the Kochs have funded devise the game and the rules by which it is played; Americans for Prosperity coaches and motivates the team.
The Tea Party movement: deluded and inspired by billionaires George Monbiot 2010
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A more nuanced approach to immigration is reflected in conservative thinktanks such as the Cato Institute, which in January gave evidence to the Congressional subcommittee on immigration policy in which it said that the existing emphasis on legal enforcement against undocumented workers in factories and farms was having a damaging effect on the economy.
Hispanic activists urge GOP to follow Gingrich's lead on immigration 2011
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But despite the consensus forming among the economic elite in thinktanks and newspaper op-ed pages around the world, there is fierce opposition in Germany to any plan which would appear to give the ECB a licence to print as much money as it pleases.
ECB: can a lender of last resort defuse Europe's liquidity timebomb? 2011
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"The productivity of U.S. thinktanks and NGOs helps rule countries which cannot rule themselves."
Isabel Macdonald: Clinton Apologizes for U.S. Role in Destroying Haitian Democracy (Happy April Fool's Day!) Isabel Macdonald 2011
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Many right-of-centre thinktanks have opposed its special treatment, arguing that Canada's budgetary restraint in the 1990s – considered a blueprint for deficit reduction – did not have any no-go areas.
Don't spare the NHS from cuts, says leftwing thinktank Larry Elliott 2010
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Most of these bodies call themselves "free-market thinktanks", but their trick? as (Astro) Turf Wars points out? is to conflate crony capitalism with free enterprise, and free enterprise with personal liberty.
The Tea Party movement: deluded and inspired by billionaires George Monbiot 2010
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