inventing

verb

present participle of invent
as in devising
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination they invented an explanation for the broken vase that would satisfy their grandmother

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Recent Examples of inventing Today, the chain credited for inventing sliders is based in Ohio. — Kansas City Star, 17 July 2026 The financial world will keep inventing new products, acronyms, and calculators. — Bydoug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 July 2026 That is why leaders should think less about inventing a universal definition of fun and more about designing experiences that fit the people actually in the room. — Rick Tollakson, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 Like, how much of this is Musk doing stuff, inventing stuff, innovating stuff? — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026 Join the team inventing impactful AI solutions to shape the future of finance. — IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2026 But the administration went further, inventing a requirement that Congress did not intend. — Nicole Jorwic, STAT, 23 June 2026 Adding to the controversy, Walker was erroneously credited with inventing the hot comb. — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 20 June 2026 Indeed, it’s been 60 years since England won the 1966 World Cup on their home soil, a humbling reality for the country credited with inventing soccer and that boasts the sport’s most prestigious professional league. — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 15 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inventing
  1. devising
  2. concocting
  3. constructing
  4. designing
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  • Ten years on, after devising the victorious Trojan Horse gambit, Ulysses attempts to return to Ithaca and the pining Penelope, whose palace has been overrun with scheming suitors seeking her hand.
    — Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2026
  • Feynman was a graduate student there at the time and threw himself into the debate with gusto, even devising an experiment in the cyclotron laboratory to test his hypothesis.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026
Definition of devising
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  • And she’s spent a decade scaling her brand into an industry disrupter; Ellsworth began concocting prebiotic drinks in 2015, founding her business just one year later.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 11 May 2026
  • According to the report, workers illegally pocketed between $20,000 and more than $41,000 in Paycheck Protection Program loans from a massive federal COVID-19 pandemic relief effort – some by concocting companies that didn't exist to pocket federal assistance funds.
    — Chris Tye, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
Definition of concocting
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  • To replace them, Russia is constructing the Leningrad-II nuclear facility at a neighboring site, which will house four VVER-1200 units, with the aim of supplying power till the 2080s, and possibly another two decades with extensions.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 16 July 2026
  • But SpaceX has plowed ahead, constructing a launchpad and other infrastructure to host Starships.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
Definition of constructing
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  • SpaceX is designing Starship, which stands more than 400 feet (121 meters) tall, to be a fully reusable rocket capable of launching missions to the moon, Mars or beyond.
    — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 15 July 2026
  • In addition to Ranger, the companies are also designing a one-way attack variant known as Strike.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 15 July 2026
Definition of designing

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