as in devising
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination
they invented an explanation for the broken vase that would satisfy their grandmother
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Recent Examples of inventing
Creative and imaginative, Wesley is a natural builder who loves working with Legos, crafting intricate origami art, and even inventing his own games.
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Mare Staff, Boston Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
Finding a new cinematic language meant finding new cinematic tools, and Kelly credits collaborators like key grip Rudy Covarrubias and lens technician Dan Sasaki with inventing ingenious solutions to the movie’s myriad technical challenges.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 19 Sep. 2025
What does the city famous for inventing its namesake wings have in common with the city famous for, among other things, the 2005 movie starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst?
—Amanda Hancock, Louisville Courier Journal, 17 Sep. 2025
This was the model that built the industry and has become the standard of the oldest and biggest player, CMH (Canadian Mountain Holidays), generally credited with inventing the heli-ski holiday.
—Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Germany, despite inventing maglev, has no high-speed maglev lines in operation, having canceled a Munich airport project in 2008.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
Although few people know her name, Yeager had a huge influence on 20th century pop culture — popularizing the bikini, helping discover Bettie Page, shaping the image of Playboy and inventing the selfie.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
In many ways, today’s LLMs are far too flexible—inventing information or taking unexpected shortcuts.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
Yet, bizarrely, the TV show undercuts this angle by inventing a serial killer nurse from whole cloth, a move that shifts the blame away from systemic forces and toward a motiveless scoundrel.
—Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inventing
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In devising the schedules, the conference office aimed for competitive balance, taking into account each team’s records from 2021-24 and using them to strategically place matchups.—
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At the same time, the Justice Department is devising its own means to target anyone who opposes the President’s immigration policies.—
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Orbán has long sought to consolidate his power through concocting scapegoats for Hungary’s ills.—
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Not only is the kitchen fully on display but a separate alcove is given over to his highly technical lab, a play space dedicated to fermentation, aging, preserving and otherwise concocting.—
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Contractors spent approximately $300,000 in federal funds constructing wheelchair ramps, widening hallways, lowering door handles and tearing out lower kitchen cabinets so people with wheelchairs could navigate with ease.—
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Optimizing these curves—constructing them in a way that maximizes the shape’s area—yields Gerver’s sofa.—
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After graduating from college, Pendleton began her career as a cartographic engineer, designing and modifying maps at the dawn of the computer age.—
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Yield strength describes the point at which a material permanently deforms under stress, marking the boundary between elastic flexibility and structural failure – crucial for engineers designing load-bearing structures.—
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“Inventing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inventing. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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