The phrase "applying their minds" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of thinking critically or using one's intellect to solve a problem or make a decision.
Example: "The team spent hours applying their minds to find a solution to the complex issue at hand."
Alternatives: "engaging their intellect" or "using their reasoning skills."
But in the Providence office, workers speak of a certain joy that comes with applying their minds.
But if that is to happen, many more of the entrepreneurs who are changing the rules of everything from computers to high finance will have to start applying their minds to the art of giving as well.
The prison warden wasn't keen but after Hinton told him that it was better to have inmates applying their minds to reading than to ways of causing disruption, he reluctantly agreed.
"You see" - says this story, in effect - "there never was such a thing as Torah in this world without our being productively involved; our ancestors set about applying their minds and interpreting, from the very first moment of revelation, and so we must do".
Instead of applying their mind, they have to implement what SHRC has decided.
THE nine justices on America's Supreme Court must apply their minds to the thorniest of legal questions.
Many hope to apply their minds beyond financial modeling, product recommendations, ad placement, or even disease analysis to do more to make the world a better place.
Just so, the showdown between Ruth and Debbie is about the strategies they've each developed to apply their minds to an industry that wants to see them as bodies.
In the late 18th century, with the ascendant British Empire centred on London, a small group of friends met at a house on the crossroads outside Birmingham and applied their minds to the problems of the age.
They need to apply their minds collectively and individually to what it means to 'decolonise' higher education in general and in specific disciplines.
