"thinker" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe someone who is engaging in deep or analytical thinking. For example, "Lisa is a thoughtful thinker who often comes up with creative solutions to difficult problems."
I'm such a practical person and I've always been a thinker and a planner.
O'Callaghan described Burnside as "a very hard worker for the party who put a shift in" but concluded that he "wasn't a great political strategist or long-term thinker".
Jeremy Gilbert, a brilliant thinker and quite tempestuous man, co-wrote Reclaiming Modernity (with Mark Fisher) and launched it in Committee Room 10 last November.
Attlee was persuaded to elevate him to the peerage, and bring to Labour's sparsely populated Lords benches a youthful thinker who had been Sir William Beveridge's right-hand man on his landmark welfare state report.
The most important rite of passage for a radical public thinker is summarised in the acronym AMA – the "ask me anything" sessions pioneered on Reddit.
"More than that, you have been the original thinker who has taken Britain on the journey that began with inflation targeting, to monetary independence, and now to the far-reaching reforms to prudential regulation and financial oversight," he added.
Morsi refused to give the power of attorney to the lawyer secured for him by colleagues outside prison – Selim al-Awa, a prominent Islamist thinker who also ran for president last year.
Dave described Annette, 'Netty', as a thinker who was always writing poetry.
Burlatsky was a premature "new thinker" about international relations and about the need for a more tolerant, pluralistic politics and, accordingly, one of the advance guard of perestroika.
Another was of the feminist thinker Kate Millett, in shorts and muddy boots on her farm in Poughkeepsie.
He faces being beaten back into his old life, or beating the deeply prejudiced system that even in apparently more enlightened times, never expects, or wants, an unruly, desensitised ruffian to transform into a transgressive, inspirational thinker.
