EXCOGITATING Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

excogitating

verb

present participle of excogitate

as in devising

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination she's a master at excogitating reasons not to do her assigned work

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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

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Compass is constructing five hyperscale data centers on the former Sears Headquarters campus.

— John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026
This includes repairing roofs, modernizing classrooms, upgrading heating and cooling systems, improving security and constructing new buildings.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2026

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Across both commercial ambient platforms and general-purpose models applied to clinical documentation, the more common failure is under-capture rather than inventing what wasn’t said.

— Pat Williams, Forbes.com, 15 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

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