think up
phrasal verb
thought up; thinking up; thinks up
informal
: to use one's mind to form or invent (something)
Quick! We have to think up an excuse.
They thought up a new way of raising money for charity.
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This effort started when Arthur Sun, a first-year undergraduate student at the University of Cambridge, thought up a problem for a university math contest.
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Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2025
In the movies, zombies are impervious to knives, guns, katanas, spiked baseball bats and most other weapons an inventive auteur can think up.
—Jason Rose, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
The multibillion-dollar company, however, began with an idea thought up by Field and cofounder Evan Wallace, who was a Brown teaching assistant at the time.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2025
Posting the Ten Commandments is not some new crazy idea that Christians have thought up to try to indoctrinate our children in Christian teaching.
—Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2025
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Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2025
In the movies, zombies are impervious to knives, guns, katanas, spiked baseball bats and most other weapons an inventive auteur can think up.
—Jason Rose, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
The multibillion-dollar company, however, began with an idea thought up by Field and cofounder Evan Wallace, who was a Brown teaching assistant at the time.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2025
Posting the Ten Commandments is not some new crazy idea that Christians have thought up to try to indoctrinate our children in Christian teaching.
—Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2025
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“Think up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/think%20up. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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