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
Congressional Republicans are ideating about domestic policy.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ideating
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In defeat, White Southerners cast themselves in the role of Christ, imagining their suffering as redemptive.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Mar. 2026
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Ryle warned us against imagining a ghost inside the machine.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
2 Mar. 2026
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Beyond the arena, Welts shared fresh details about the entertainment district the team is envisioning with its next home.—
Devyani Chhetri,
Dallas Morning News,
3 Mar. 2026
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Dissecting the Alpha Plan With the introduction of several products across different categories, Honor plans to push itself as a AI+robotics ecosystem for the future, envisioning an AI hardware civilization where devices, think, move, interact, and work together.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Mar. 2026
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Aston Villa Not so long ago, Aston Villa fans were dreaming of winning the title.—
Graham Ruthven,
New York Times,
3 Mar. 2026
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For the kids who spend their days dreaming of Putnam County Spelling Bee glory, words are the things that set them free.—
David John Chávez,
Mercury News,
2 Mar. 2026
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Indian airlines are also seeing cost escalations due to restriction on use of airspace over Gulf countries.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
5 Mar. 2026
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Try setting a timer for yourself and seeing how much you can get done in quick bursts (with breaks in between, of course).—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Mar. 2026
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This willful overreach is more or less business as usual for Albarn and his old housemate Hewlett, who, by conceiving this cartoon combo of multiracial punks in 1998, advanced a vision of pop hybridity that anticipated our age of cultural superabundance.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
27 Feb. 2026
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The episode ends with one more flashback, this time to the night Dixie and Don slept together — conceiving their son Blue — when he was separated from his wife Blythe.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
27 Feb. 2026
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When Gu drops into the halfpipe, listening to American rap, her brain is still working at 100mph, sometimes visualizing a takeoff one second before performing her trick.—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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To help with visualizing a standard pour of wine, five ounces is a little more than a 1/2 cup of liquid.—
Jessica Farthing,
Southern Living,
8 Feb. 2026
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The trio created fake Minnesota temporary drivers’ licenses using false names, with each license picturing one of the Thomases, federal prosecutors said.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
9 Feb. 2026
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Instead of picturing that exercise as long and gruesome, try breaking it up.—
Avery Newmark,
AJC.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Ideating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideating. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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