Kollokation
But something told me I didn't want to voice that thought aloud.
He was not so much telling me as just thinking aloud.
He might have been thinking aloud rather than speaking to her.
He spoke the words as they occurred to him, thinking aloud.
In the end he seemed to forget about me entirely, and to be simply thinking aloud.
She sat down on the edge of the bed and continued to think aloud.
She was staring into space, and seemed to be thinking aloud.
She tilted her head a little to one side, thinking aloud.
It was often her habit in this room to think aloud to herself.
We speculate all the time around one another, think aloud.
