excogitates

present tense third-person singular of excogitate

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Verb
  • No one wants to give up on Erica, especially Uhura, who devises a plan to send another shuttle through the wormhole to rescue Erica.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Mary’s enterprising sister Edith (Laura Carmichael) devises a plan to invite Coward, in whose show their friend Guy Dexter (Dominic West), now secretly in a relationship with their former servant Thomas (Robert James-Collier), is appearing.
    Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Holland constructs a fragmented, kaleidoscopic portrait that blends real episodes with Kafka’s fiction and his strange afterlife as both cultural prophet and commercial brand.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
  • To facilitate such a mix, Alameddine constructs The True True Story of Raja the Gullible like an accordion, bracketing it with two short chapters set in 2023 and using the space between them to take his narrator back and forth in time.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Once concentration becomes too high, the ingenuity of entrepreneurs and developers invents a new approach to reverse it.
    Christian Catalini, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Well, after his sleep is disrupted by a cat scratching outside his apartment, Charlie invents the perfect solution.
    James Mercadante, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The company designs and produces microchips that go into everything from self-driving cars to laptops.
    John Ruwitch, NPR, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Fallon designs programs, opens doors, and ensures the right mentors, operators, and capital show up at the right time.
    Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Excogitates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excogitates. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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