How to Use critical thinking in a Sentence

critical thinking

noun
  • To do this, a person needs to be skilled at critical thinking.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The sowing of confusion seemed to shut down any and all critical thinking skills.
    Brian Stelter, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
  • How will Keough’s Sasquatch protect her family, filled with men whose critical thinking skills could use some work?
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Skills like critical thinking, which employers expressed a clear need for, aren’t new.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But that reflects a lack of critical thinking, which is, well, critical to our social well-being.
    David A. Brenner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2024
  • His day job is doing team building and critical thinking exercises for companies, and he’s got a lot of ideas for how that might come in handy.
    Calmatters, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
  • Both men want to turn back the clock to a whiter and more patriarchal time when corporate interests ruled the day and religion kept critical thinking at bay.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Who have lost all capacity for critical thinking and will buy whatever they’re told by Donald Trump and his sycophants in the right-wing media.
    USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Cursive makes young scholars use their brain and their hands at the same time, thereby improving memory and critical thinking?
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Following a mob that is devoid of any critical thinking is giving carte blanche to the very politicians that are bent on eliminating the essence of our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
    Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 5 June 2024
  • But what was the threshold between developing critical thinking and pushing a debate too far?
    Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Education gave me the critical thinking skills needed to perform that repair.
    Tim Johnson, JSTOR Daily, 15 June 2024
  • The classroom is for instructing students on the fundamentals, preparing them for college and the workplace, and teaching them critical thinking skills.
    Charlotte Observer, 8 Feb. 2024
  • This could mean assigning five math problems instead of 20 — or asking questions to foster creative and critical thinking rather than a simple answer.
    April Rubin, Axios, 2 Sep. 2024
  • This helps with critical thinking and affirms the limitless potential of Black identity.
    A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez, Parents, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Key skills this game helps to build are critical thinking, spatial reasoning, planning, and engineering.
    Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The answer, for me, is tried and true: Invest in durable skills like critical thinking, creativity, and emotional intelligence.
    Bijal Shah, Fortune, 18 Mar. 2024
  • When are schools going to focus on fulfilling basic purposes, such as instruction in civics and critical thinking?
    Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Students learn adaptability, communication skills and critical thinking skills while learning to create a business plan and how to bring produce and herbs to market.
    Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Remember that when terrified of the other side, your primitive instincts take over, leaving your critical thinking skills behind.
    Arash Javanbakht, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The school encourages critical thinking and risk-taking while empowering students to create new ideas and solutions.
    Cathy Whitlock, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The curriculum will cover the research process and methods for creating and producing information; critical thinking skills; and the difference between facts, points of view, and opinions.
    Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The show’s curriculum emphasizes STEM skills, creative problem-solving and critical thinking.
    Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Work is underway to add the full Afghan curriculum for grades 7 to 12, with some modifications to encourage critical thinking and to sustain the interest of the social media generation.
    Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Research shows that outdoor learning helps students improve resilience, problem solving, critical thinking, leadership and teamwork and leads to higher test scores and stronger engagement in school.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 2 May 2024
  • In essence this is flipping the script on traditional doctoring while incentivizing doctors to use testing as a surrogate for critical thinking, dumbing down the practice of medicine and throwing gasoline on the problem of over-testing.
    Eric Snoey, Twin Cities, 26 May 2024
  • But ethical, critical thinking and aesthetics survive in the Midyear Reckoning.
    Armond White, National Review, 12 July 2024
  • This rally is a space to motivate connection, critical thinking, and collective action.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Instead, the focus should be on providing a wide array of viewpoints and encouraging critical thinking and literacy among students.
    Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
  • That ignited a firestorm and raised questions about the role of universities in addressing divisive issues and fostering critical thinking among students who are still working out moral and ethical views.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023

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