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groupthink

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10 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡɹuːpθɪŋk/Part of speech nounSorted ghiknoprtuStarts with GEnds with K0 cluesCommon crossword word
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  1. decision making by a group (especially in a manner that discourages creativity or individual responsibility)

Word origin

Coined by William H. Whyte in 1952, from group + think, modelled on earlier doublethink from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Used in a sentence

  • This gang-bang speaks more to journalistic groupthink than to any real moral or legal reasoning.
  • Anyone who works for a news organization (or any large corporation, for that matter) can weave tales of woe around all the planning, brainstorming, off-site retreats and other groupthinks that led nowhere.
  • A militant group-think seized hold of the ministry.

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