How to Use ideate in a Sentence

ideate

verb
  • Gift your foodie a fun way to ideate new meals with these foodie dice.
    Cnn Underscored Staff, CNN Underscored, 9 Dec. 2020
  • And this tool allows people to ideate and create in new ways.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2024
  • And no one has the time to ideate a dinner that is easy for a toddler to make every night.
    Hetal Vasavada, Bon Appétit, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Someone who brings people along with the agenda and to ideate the future.
    Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The freedom to think and ideate opens the door for new improvements for the business.
    Veronica Buitron, Forbes, 12 July 2022
  • This creates space for people to think and do, ideate and find their inspiration.
    Shannon Brooks, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
  • To ideate her brand’s next chapter, Huda Kattan is going back to her roots.
    James Manso, WWD, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The greatest need in innovation is having the runway to ideate freely and often.
    Quartz Creative For Baker Tilly, Quartz, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The caffeine seems to pull the two control centers together to innovate and ideate.
    Ira Gostin, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Take a good look at your calendar for the next 30 days, and schedule in time to ideate and collaborate.
    Venus Australis, refinery29.com, 23 June 2019
  • Rhone’s specialty is ideating activewear that seamlessly fills the gap between work and play.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 4 June 2026
  • These covers from the past just give us more inspiration for the future as nostalgia is the best place to start when ideating new ideas.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 18 Aug. 2023
  • This team should be able to help ideate, iterate, deploy and learn while observing and respecting the scope and budget.
    Prateek Chakravarty, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • While sitting at his Chicago home, Spencer tells me the album was ideated four years ago and took about a year to complete.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The cause for this was ideated when, after working at a university, Green saw an uptick in college dropout rates.
    Pauleanna Reid, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Make sure to have fun when ideating and creating your family Halloween costume.
    Casey Clark, Parents, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The conversations and ideating that happen at work are so inspiring and, of course, spill over into my personal life.
    Café Appliances, Bon Appétit, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Ogboh used his typical process—sending out questionnaires asking for one flavor to define a place—to ideate Japa.
    Emma Balter, Chron, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Turns out, giving people space to think and ideate can do more for your company’s bottom line than motivational speeches and all-hands theatrics.
    Cynthia Pong, Jd, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Many of them resent giving up the flexibility of hybrid or fully at-home work in favor of ideating in an open-concept office in hard pants.
    Jolie Myers, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Alongside this explosion in growth has emerged a gargantuan demand for the right talent and workforce to ideate and develop these products.
    Dr. Sai Balasubramanian, M.d., J.d., Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • And whatever comes next is going to be something that’s already been ideated and connecting with people, because the networks are hedging bets.
    Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2025
  • This atmosphere is essential for all workers to ideate, create and innovate while having their ideas and opinions given equal treatment.
    Dave Buss, Forbes, 4 May 2022
  • Additionally, as certain brands and products win the market, others are trying to follow in their footsteps rather than ideate something new.
    Emily Burns, Footwear News, 13 Nov. 2025
  • People begin to ideate beyond the capacities of a machine and build camaraderie with their fellow employees.
    Nir Bashan, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • The flexibility to ideate and run with new ideas breeds proactivity, an important driving force for promotion.
    Alan Price, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The data also helps with fresh iterations of a shoe, as well as plays a role in ideating new models, with each predecessor becoming the benchmark for the next one.
    Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Backgrounds, storyboards, or outlines generated by AI leave the thinking and ideating to you.
    Mary Meehan, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Aside from serving as a natural place to convene and ideate out loud, offices can also function as a refuge from the manifold distractions plaguing workers at their home office.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Many curvy customers lean on Fashion Nova for denim due to the mainstream market’s refusal to ideate and create affordable denim.
    Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 5 Aug. 2025

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