The phrase "area thinking" is not a standard expression in written English and may cause confusion.
It could potentially be used in contexts discussing specific types of thinking related to a particular area or field, but it lacks clarity without additional context.
Example: "In the realm of education, area thinking can help educators focus on specific subjects and their unique challenges."
Alternatives: "domain-specific thinking" or "contextual thinking".
"I scanned the whole area, thinking, 'Where's the patient at?" he said.
He arranged a survey over a large area, thinking there might be 50 cases, but found 500 and convinced a government surgeon of the need for action.
Hajji Zaher, an elder in Ghazni town, gave this account: "At 3 a.m., when the Americans were searching the houses and when they blew up the gates, the police rushed to the area thinking that they were Taliban.
"This type of behaviour takes us back 40-50 years, if you have every agent in an area thinking that this is normal and accepted practice then this is going to have a direct impact on the community," she said.
Many of them evacuated the area thinking their mobile homes would be no match for Irma, and they were surprised to see the storm weaken just enough to spare their homes.
One ad features a young man in a gate area, thinking about flying towards his mother's pasta and clean sheets.
It happened in the Lebanese civil war, people from the mountains from poorer areas thinking they'd been snubbed by Beirut".
We have a really strong group of advisors who are gurus in their areas, thinking about everything from supply chain management, to accounting, to cosmetic chemistry.
Even some of your friends are going to touch their areas thinking about it.
Unfortunately, all I see us doing is illogically paying a marketing firm in Tennessee to tell us things about ourselves and the shopping habits of people in neighboring areas, thinking our future lies in getting more retail shoppers to Glendale.
The expressivist about a particular area will claim that the realist is misled by the syntax of the sentences of that area into thinking that they are truth-apt: she will say that this is a case where the conventional association of the declarative mood with assertoric force breaks down.
