How to Use thought experiment in a Sentence

thought experiment

noun

• The idea for the room sprang from a kind of thought experiment.
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2021
• The defense is like the ship of Theseus, the thought experiment that old Greek dudes loved.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 1 May 2021
• This is such an easy thought experiment that is all too rare in our world today.
  — Alexis Drutchas, CNN, 3 June 2021
• At its core, the genre is a tool for building thought experiment machines.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 11 July 2019
• And the knapsack problem is more than a thought experiment.
  — Elizabeth Landau, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Mar. 2020
• The Curse of Negative Energy For most physicists, that was the end of the thought experiment.
  — Robert Gast, Scientific American, 13 July 2021
• But running that thought experiment in our heads sure can be fruitful and fun.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 7 July 2021
• The reader does not have to follow her all the way on this point to find her book a fascinating thought experiment.
  — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2020
• For me, these questions are not some idle thought experiment.
  — Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 8 Sep. 2021
• In this thought experiment, five people are about to be killed by a runaway trolley.
  — Daniel Kahneman, WSJ, 13 May 2021
• The Boys, out July 25, is a high-octane thought experiment.
  — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 25 July 2019
• Too late for this year, but a thought experiment for going forward.
  — Ginny Hogan, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2022
• Still, Ehlmann says the idea remains only a thought experiment.
  — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2022
• Man from Earth is essentially this thought experiment played out among a group of friends.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 18 Aug. 2022
• So why the sudden interest in this thought experiment of sorts?
  — Mara Santilli, SELF, 22 Apr. 2022
• At the heart of their argument is a thought experiment in which physicists measure the spin of particles.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2021
• This one’s not for the faint of heart, but Splice certainly depicts what happens when a thought experiment is taken too far.
  — Brooke Knisley, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2021
• To be sure, the challenge was just a thought experiment—Phan wasn’t about to actually start planting Versailles-scale hedges and throw his boss in the middle of it.
  — Sophia Chen, Wired, 9 June 2020
• The goal of this thought experiment is to highlight the immense power of vaccines and the impetus to immunize.
  — Zach Nayer, STAT, 17 Dec. 2020
• The whole point of Fleishman, a clever thought experiment of a book that doesn’t quite work on screen, is that there’s more than one side to this apparently simple story.
  — Time, 10 Nov. 2022
• In terms of our thought experiment, that was not a coincidence.
  — Stephon Alexander, Wired, 31 Aug. 2021
• In Herzog’s hands, Lubang exists outside of time, and Onoda’s war has the eerie gravity of a thought experiment come to life.
  — Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 16 June 2022
• At first, the revisionism plays like a fun thought experiment.
  — Jason Parham, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
• In the thought experiment, Maxwell imagined splitting a room full of gas into two compartments by erecting a wall with a small door.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
• The buyers were aggressive—all of them men, none of them willing to engage with the thought experiment Gokey was presenting—and the calls never lasted longer than a minute.
  — Ryann Liebenthal, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2021
• This conclusion is the outcome of using a model as a thought experiment.
  — John Drake, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• The dilemma is cumbersome enough to come across as a contrived-for-TV thought experiment more than a smart inquiry into real ideas about race and ethics.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 3 Dec. 2019
• The challenge of creating a device that looks and functions like a real lightsaber has long been the subject of practical and thought experiments.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 18 Dec. 2015
• Consider a famous thought experiment dreamed up by Galileo, to determine whether a heavy object falls faster than a lighter one.
  — Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2020
• At this point, the movie becomes something of a Brechtian learning play, a thought experiment in what happens when roles are reversed, and power and its signifiers shift.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024