ideate

verb

ˈī-dē-ˌāt How to pronounce ideate (audio)
Definition of ideatenext
as in to imagine
to form a mental picture of the psychotic would repeatedly ideate the act of committing murder, and eventually he came to believe his own delusions

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Recent Examples of ideate For example, data scientists across the company recently kicked off their own data science community of practice to collectively ideate on use cases. — Rachel Curry, CNBC, 21 Mar. 2026 Computer then ideates subtasks and assigns them to multiple agents as needed, running the models Perplexity deems best for those tasks. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 26 Feb. 2026 Few might have imagined that the touchscreen technology that rules the world of devices today was actually ideated back in the 1960s. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Feb. 2026 Congressional Republicans are ideating about domestic policy. — Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 30 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ideate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ideate
  1. imagine
  2. envision
  3. conceive
  4. see
  5. visualize
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  • Whether real or imagined, the stigma is there, making this particular crisis one that Taco Bell needs to address in full force.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
  • What comes next is going to be strange and, at times, controversial (imagine animal studies in this coming era).
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of imagine
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  • The debt stems from a contract signed about 25 years ago, when Diablo Grande was envisioned as a much larger development.
    — Nina Burns, CBS News, 14 July 2026
  • The latest revision of the bill would authorize the supplemental payments as a one-year program, instead of recurring annual checks as envisioned in the first draft.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 13 July 2026
Definition of envision
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  • There’s one more named Faith after the George Michael song she was conceived to.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 July 2026
  • The best intentions absolutely go out the window, for almost any writer, when faced with the reality of conceiving an entire world; what to include, what to cut, what is absolutely necessary and what can be left in an older draft.
    — Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of conceive
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  • Mercedes-Benz Stadium might never again see two comebacks like the ones engineered by Messi in Atlanta.
    — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
  • She’s seen during a dance rehearsal, a silly social media clip, and onstage from their Lollapalooza set, the latter of which came before her announcement in February to step away from Katseye.
    — Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2026
Definition of see
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  • This graphic posted by a fan on social media does a great job visualizing the wide variety and size of the dragons.
    — Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 15 July 2026
  • And Russia’s true position – and with it Putin’s dilemma – can be visualized in a split screen of competing perspectives.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
Definition of visualize

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