Thesaurus results for IDEATING

ideating

verb

present participle of ideate

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 Hauber and Jeffs began ideating on their film and TV production company 2023 while Hauber was producing the musical Rock of Ages at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto. —

Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2026 Congressional Republicans are ideating about domestic policy. —

Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 30 Jan. 2026 The data also helps with fresh iterations of a shoe, as well as plays a role in ideating new models, with each predecessor becoming the benchmark for the next one. —

Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025 With days spent ideating at Hudson cafés and nights spent jamming around Dessner's Long Pond Studio's kitchen table, Mumford & Sons tapped into the essence of rediscovery while creating Prizefighter. —

Chris Barilla, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025

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In imagining my ideal bachelorette, there was no sash, no tiara, no phallic shot glasses.

— Aemilia Madden, Vogue, 27 May 2026
My own research in the Princeton Music Cognition Lab peels back the everyday experience of imagining something while listening to music to identify a striking case of this collision between the individual and the collective.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026