Policy and Thinking

Policy

Policy noun - A way of acting or proceeding.

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Thinking and policy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Thinking" instead a noun "Policy".

Nearby Words: politic, policing, politics, political, policed

Thinking noun - The process of using your mind to consider something carefully.

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Policy and thinking are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Policy" instead a noun "Thinking".

Nearby Words: think, thinker, thinkable

best	best policy	best thinking
better	better policy	better thinking
similar	similar policy	similar thinking
current	current policy	current thinking
Other adjectives: liberal, free, simple, poor, actual, entire, careful, new, former, military, independent, corporate.

There was a The West Wing episode where Bartlet played simultaneous chess with a few of the main characters during a foreign policy crisis with China over Taiwan which he clearly was thinking of as a metaphorical chess match.

Source: Chess Motifs
Valente is set in a post-World War III United States where the government maintains a facade of The Fabulous Fifties as deliberate policy so people can avoid thinking about how it's a Crapsack World in reality.

Source: The Fifties
Honesty Is the Best Policy: When Spike thinks he can light fires with his mind and tries to do it again, Twilight takes him aside and explains that she lit the torch for him instead of letting him keep thinking that he has psychic powers or something.

Source: Recap / My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S4 E24 "Equestria Games"

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