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think with portals

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.30 in modern English

Syllables
think with- -por-tals
IPA
31
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To think in an inventive or lateral way.

Etymology

From a tagline for the 2007 puzzle video game Portal, "Now you're thinking with portals."

Inflected Forms

thinks with portals (present, singular) thinking with portals (participle, present) thought with portals (participle, past) thought with portals (past)

Questions

What does think with portals mean?
To think in an inventive or lateral way.
Where does think with portals come from?
From a tagline for the 2007 puzzle video game Portal, "Now you're thinking with portals."

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