inventing

present participle of invent

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of inventing He is attributed with inventing Irish coffee. Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025 The team successfully solved a long-standing challenge by inventing a way to create a durable protective layer on fully inorganic perovskite solar cells. Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025 From constructing ramps to inventing imaginative new worlds, Rail Racers proves Magna-Tiles are endlessly modular and fun. Emily Glover, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025 Berners-Lee is admired in a similar spirit—not only for inventing the web but for refusing to patent it. Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025 Creative and imaginative, Wesley is a natural builder who loves working with Legos, crafting intricate origami art, and even inventing his own games. Mare Staff, Boston Herald, 21 Sep. 2025 Finding a new cinematic language meant finding new cinematic tools, and Kelly credits collaborators like key grip Rudy Covarrubias and lens technician Dan Sasaki with inventing ingenious solutions to the movie’s myriad technical challenges. Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 19 Sep. 2025 What does the city famous for inventing its namesake wings have in common with the city famous for, among other things, the 2005 movie starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst? Amanda Hancock, Louisville Courier Journal, 17 Sep. 2025 This was the model that built the industry and has become the standard of the oldest and biggest player, CMH (Canadian Mountain Holidays), generally credited with inventing the heli-ski holiday. Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inventing
Verb
  • For 39 years, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act has required redistricting institutions to consider racial and ethnic minority representation when devising congressional districts.
    Sam D. Hayes, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The problem in devising such a tax is defining what constitutes a robot.
    Zach Halaschak, The Washington Examiner, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But in the late 1800s, food companies began concocting products that were wildly different from anything people could make themselves.
    Alice Callahan, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Orbán has long sought to consolidate his power through concocting scapegoats for Hungary’s ills.
    Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The stereotype of constructing the culture of a program in the mirror image of the head coach is belabored throughout every college football season.
    Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • One of Puth’s greatest talents is constructing songs that sound simple but are powered by dynamic chord switches and deceptively complicated harmonies.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This includes prevention and preparedness – conducting risk assessments to confirm key areas of crisis risk, designing and conducting practical tabletop scenario exercises to practice response to key risks, and putting in place critical incident response protocols.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The efficiency boost came from designing the rotors to be hollow instead of filled with foam, as is the case with most wind turbine blades.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Inventing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inventing. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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