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Thinking relations should not be featured in the article (5)

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I believe the answer is:

thing

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'article' is the definition.
(both can mean an object)

'thinking relations should not be featured in the' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'in' is found in the answer.
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for thing that I've seen before include "cup of tea" , "An unnamed object or item" , "A creature" , "Individual object" , "Object; gadget" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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