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It's common to use "okay" in order to make a request sound more polite or to stand-in for "Do you understand?" But to the child -- a concrete thinker unfamiliar with these blips in the English language -- "okay" can sound very much like a question to which the child has the option of saying "yes" or "no".
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She is an extremely concrete thinker – "nobody ever died because I got a bad review in the New York Times.
In 1989, she became director of composition, a job she loved, she says, because the required first-year writing course gave her a chance to shape a curriculum that would teach critical thinking and "empower" the many "provincial, religious, concrete thinkers," who, as she had been, were the first generation in their families to attend college.
Some concrete thinkers may argue that since Catholic hospitals are "private" institutions, the Vatican can impose any rules that it wants.
Yet, many people who consider themselves as "concrete" thinkers are reliant on evidence-based thinking processes tend to dismiss intuition as a folly and unreliable.
Consider a concrete example.
A concrete base is $240.
I drove a concrete truck.
"This is a concrete jungle".
A concrete housing block?
Not a concrete sidewalk?
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