The phrase "alert thinking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state of mental readiness and awareness, often in contexts related to problem-solving or decision-making.
Example: "In high-pressure situations, alert thinking is crucial for making quick and effective decisions."
Alternatives: "vigilant thinking" or "attentive reasoning."
"John's always alert, always thinking about his job," Pasquale says.
They alerted authorities thinking it might be human.
That answer may or may not have satisfied Justice Kennedy, but it was alert to his thinking.
He meant that Kahn was uninhibited by conventional ways of thinking, alert to abandon positions that were starting to seem obsolete, continually trying to find new ways to see around the next corner.
(Source: American Psychological Association). 2 - Decision Making, Fast Analytics and Alert, Nimble Thinking: Research by the University of Rochester suggests that the use of video games to train soldiers and surgeons is a viable option, largely because decisions are no less accurate when made by action-packed video game players.
Still mildly drunk and not alert enough to be thinking clearly, we piled into Bazza's unregistered Mitsubishi Mirage so we could make it up to the forest by dawn.
Based on our finding of close associations among markers of microvessel disease, the finding of any indication of incipient microvessel disease should therefore alert the clinician toward thinking that the patient has an increased risk of having neuropathy.
Consider 26-year-old Lori, who is so concerned about her grandfather's daily drinking and driving that she is thinking of alerting the police to ambush and arrest him on the road.
The first came in October 1969, when the president ordered Melvin R. Laird, his secretary of defense, to put American nuclear forces on high alert to scare Moscow into thinking the United States might use nuclear arms against the North Vietnamese.
