"think-tank" meaning in English

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          "text": "The chairman had some quite remarkable hearings last year — I think you cited in your testimony Dr. Lange and others who came here and sort of think-tanked for us — and it was very interesting.",
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          "ref": "1990, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Crisis, page 20",
          "text": "In either event, depending on the nature of the business and the help needed, assistance through the entire procedure will be provided. Everything from devising a business plan to business expansion strategies are think-tanked.",
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          "ref": "2013, Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story",
          "text": "Bill will change jobs to be closer, will move from D.C. to L.A., just after the riots, and will do his think-tanking there.",
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          "ref": "2016, Warren Henderson, Destiny to Die",
          "text": "And punishing the ones who were responsible for think-tanking, creating and unleashing this horrible monster, murdering biological warfare on the people, while being faithfully, willingly and ready to die in accomplishing their conquest against these evil-doers.",
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          "text": "To Schroeder, the trip to FedEx's 2015 small-business summit, where she and fellow winners “think-tanked it out,” was invaluable.",
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