as in imagining
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 ideating
While lip is Being Frenshe’s latest iteration of wellness, Jain said Tisdale and the Maesa team are always ideating what could be next.
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Emily Burns, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Emily Burns, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ideating
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Show cars allow designers to push those boundaries, imagining what a further off tomorrow would look like, often with exaggerated proportions and materials that would likely never make their way into a mass production model.—
Eileen Falkenberg-Hull,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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Webb suggests imagining alternative intelligences — like mosses — that prioritize coexistence and ecological resilience over dominance, offering a radically different model for future AI.—
Jonny Thomson,
Big Think,
8 Oct. 2025
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And some of these AI companies are projecting the idea even further, envisioning a future where AI agents use their coding abilities spin up bespoke software on the fly to handle many of the tasks that now require enterprise software, like, um, Salesforce.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
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Still others were envisioning future scenarios where a president illegally seizes power in a coup.—
Ryan Kennedy,
The Conversation,
13 Oct. 2025
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Donnie Wahlberg reprises the role of Danny Reagan in Blue Bloods offshoot Boston Blue and the star is dreaming of a crossover movie.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
12 Oct. 2025
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Lopez, 56, stars in Kiss of the Spider Woman as movie-within-a-movie star Ingrid Luna opposite Tonatiuh and Diego Luna as Argentine political prisoners dreaming of her singing and dancing in Technicolor.—
Jack Smart,
PEOPLE,
10 Oct. 2025
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The legend began after a series of bizarre and terrifying encounters in which settlers reported seeing the ghostly figure charging through the desert, sometimes trampling livestock or vanishing into the night.—
Tiffany Acosta,
AZCentral.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Progressive Democratic New York State Assembly member Zohran Mamdani has a 21-point lead in the race to become mayor of New York City, with voters seeing him as the best choice to handle the city’s problems, according to a new Fox News poll.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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Klairissa and her husband, Mike, had been married for two and a half years before conceiving their first child.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
7 Oct. 2025
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When conceiving the hotel, Escobedo was mindful of the environment around Lake Bacalar.—
Simon Willis,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Oct. 2025
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McNeill said he’s been sitting at home in recent weeks, visualizing himself making plays for this defense.—
Colton Pouncy,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Next, leading multimodal AI teams invest in data-centric infrastructure that promotes collaboration and encourages visualizing model performance, not just measuring it.—
Brian Moore,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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Instead of picturing a style in her head or printing a 2D version for clients, Koop and other Alta users can look through lifelike representations of wardrobe pieces.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
15 Oct. 2025
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For someone like me, who has trouble picturing things that are not immediately in front of her, watching people run up the hill was illuminating.—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Ideating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideating. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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