crafting

verb

present participle of craft
as in preparing
to put (something) into proper and usually carefully worked out written form spent hours crafting the perfect letter of recommendation for her prize student

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Recent Examples of crafting Taylor Swift looked back on her earliest days crafting songs in Music City as she was inducted Monday into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, becoming its youngest member at 36. — Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Oct. 2026 What readers are saying The comments reflect a diverse range of crafting activities and their benefits, highlighting how crafting can be a source of personal fulfillment, mental engagement, and stress relief. — Maggie Penman, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2026 Still, the citizens’ group has spent months crafting solutions, the comptroller added. — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 22 Oct. 2026 The name of each perfumer crafting every fragrance for the brand is inscribed on the fragrance bottles. — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026 With Architect, OnlyFans is now crafting a new vision of what the company can be. — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026 No one makes it through the front door without a warm welcome, then to be greeted by walls of yarn and crafting tables filling the floor space. — Joy Benedict, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026 That item is currently part of an optional question bank that state and local governments can choose to include when crafting their own surveys. — Sarah Todd, STAT, 15 Oct. 2026 Convenience isn't the only reason to consider crafting a combination of Citi credit cards; Citi ThankYou® Rewards has valuable transfer partners and rewarding bonus spending categories. — Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crafting
  1. preparing
  2. composing
  3. drafting
  4. writing
Verb
  • By preparing for prolonged power disruptions, securing essential supplies, diversifying production and strengthening communications, the United States is seeking to reduce the risk that a major crisis could interrupt its ability to defend itself.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Surveillance video shows Jesse Driscoll stopped dead in his tracks, hopped across the lobby, and grabbed a chair as if preparing to tame a lion.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of preparing
Verb
  • Gash love composing songs whose intersecting lines set the entire mood of the song—jarring, dreamy, or nostalgic—in the style of art-house sampling.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Lyall pulled out his phone and began composing a message for Claude, the AI app from Anthropic.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of composing
Verb
  • Since drafting him 10th overall in 2022, the Jets have gone 20-52.
    — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Mitchell was close to a pair of White House lawyers involved in drafting the order and was among a small group of outside attorneys who provided suggestions for it, according to several people who helped write it.
    — Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of drafting
Verb
  • Composers devised elaborate systems for writing music that ventured deep into dissonance, away from the rules of tonality that had governed it for centuries.
    — Andy Cush, Pitchfork, 31 Oct. 2026
  • The prompts presented the assistant as a character in creative-writing exercises.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026
Definition of writing

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