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Definition of thumbsucker in English: thumbsuckernounˈθʌmsʌkəˈTHəmˌsəkər US derogatory, informal A serious piece of journalism which concentrates on the background and interpretation of events rather than on the news or action. the New York Times offered us a thoughtful thumbsucker on ‘The Psychology of Oil Pricing’ Example sentencesExamples - Anne Gerhart has a real thumbsucker trying to ‘puzzle out’ the logic of the crime.
- I just read a Christian Science Monitor thumbsucker about the identity of the next Pope.
- A trivial swing of a hundred thousand votes in half a dozen states and you'd be writing pretentious thumbsuckers about how cultural issues were losing their ability to attract votes for Republicans.
- The piece is less of a thumbsucker than it sounds.
- I'm not here to do a thumbsucker on this show, because I'm tired & it's all been said before.
- Contrast how Helen Thomas thinks to Elizabeth Bumiller's pathetic thumbsucker in Izvestia on the Hudson.
- Write a thumbsucker about whether we ever sent people into Cambodia!
- Of course, at this point, writing about Bush's credibility problems is almost a thumbsucker, isn't it?
Definition of thumbsucker in US English: thumbsuckernounˈTHəmˌsəkər US derogatory, informal A serious piece of journalism that concentrates on the background and interpretation of events rather than on the news or action; a think piece. Example sentencesExamples - Contrast how Helen Thomas thinks to Elizabeth Bumiller's pathetic thumbsucker in Izvestia on the Hudson.
- I just read a Christian Science Monitor thumbsucker about the identity of the next Pope.
- A trivial swing of a hundred thousand votes in half a dozen states and you'd be writing pretentious thumbsuckers about how cultural issues were losing their ability to attract votes for Republicans.
- The piece is less of a thumbsucker than it sounds.
- I'm not here to do a thumbsucker on this show, because I'm tired & it's all been said before.
- Anne Gerhart has a real thumbsucker trying to ‘puzzle out’ the logic of the crime.
- Write a thumbsucker about whether we ever sent people into Cambodia!
- Of course, at this point, writing about Bush's credibility problems is almost a thumbsucker, isn't it?
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