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groupthink

groupt·hink

UK/ˈɡɹuːpθɪŋk/ uncommon

noun

Origin

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

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