drumming up

verb

present participle of drum up
as in devising
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination anyone who drums up a better way of doing this tedious task will make a fortune

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Recent Examples of drumming up The Basij boosted its presence during the war, and hard-liners have held nightly rallies in Tehran and other cities, drumming up support and intimidating any possible dissenters. — Lee Keath, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026 The Chicago school board voted to add two questions to the November ballot gauging whether city voters would support drumming up new revenue for Chicago Public Schools. — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026 Both candidates spent the post-primary period drumming up support ahead of the Democrats’ gathering in San Diego. — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 2 Aug. 2026 After gracing Vanity Fair in recent weeks, while at the same time drumming up a firestorm with his comments about past racial tensions in Oxford hampering some recruiting, Kiffin obviously showed a lighter side. — Trey Wallace Outkick, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2026 That’s also drumming up the perception that the Fed is leaning toward lowering rates, which the three Fed presidents who dissented are firmly against. — Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 1 May 2026 The 24 staff members in Ruiz Verduzco’s office are tasked with assisting victims and their families, establishing programs in communities destroyed by violence and drumming up financial support. — Molly Quell, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026 While the younger Lloyd went on to unlike the post, Hughes still saw it and reposted it to his own socials, drumming up even more discussion about whether the Wildcats head coach already knows his future, regardless of how the season ends. — Tyler Erzberger, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026 Union officials also held a rally outside district offices Tuesday afternoon, drumming up support for their cause ahead of the school board’s meeting. — Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drumming up
  1. devising
  2. concocting
  3. constructing
  4. inventing
Verb
  • Across product organizations, Microsoft executives have been devising ways to charge customers based on usage to better reflect rising costs.
    — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have thwarted that tyranny even more profoundly, by devising an ultra-fast way to steer light, using light itself as the steering wheel.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of devising
Verb
  • The figure concocting this foreign mist of positivity, Sumrall, grunted and frowned through the evening.
    — Noah White, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2026
  • So, too, do the antics of his estate manager (a buoyant Sam Adegoke), always concocting money-making schemes, and the wide-eyed adoration of the girl next door (Amelia Mason, deftly balancing naïveté with seductiveness), who wants to save him.
    — Rhoda Feng, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of concocting
Verb
  • Companies are racing into rural America to build not only data centers but facilities for the businesses constructing and servicing them.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Building faster without sacrificing design Monumental intends to expand beyond bricklaying into other parts of constructing a building’s shell.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of constructing
Verb
  • The good news is that securing agentic AI does not require inventing a new discipline.
    — Krishnaveni Palanivelu, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
  • For a guy who's such a prominent African-American to try to get in on the conversation by inventing something that never took place.
    — Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of inventing

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“Drumming up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drumming%20up. Accessed 14 Sep. 2026.

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