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 The system began inventing commitments the company had never made, promising callbacks from teams that didn’t exist and investigations nobody had opened. — Alison Coleman, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026 His great-great-grandfather, Antonio Cansino, was widely credited with inventing modern-day Spanish dance. — Hannah Vanbiber, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026 Whether inventing the Bong-a-Tron or freeing themselves after hours trapped inside a Party City parking lot, these misadventures almost always hinge on weed. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2026 However, blaming regional choice programs for district deficits or inventing narratives about wealthy RESCs will not hire a teacher, fix a roof, or improve a reading score. — Leonard Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2026 Aguilar has been inventing these sorts of basic, accessible, potentially endless series for years. — Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026 Through the mid-1980s, Wolfram continued this work, discovering a number of fundamental connections between computation and nature, and inventing such concepts as computational irreducibility. — Big Think, 4 Aug. 2026 Rent the Runway was a media darling—a necessity for a consumer brand that was inventing the new category of clothing rental and had to persuade women to try it out. — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 29 July 2026 The brand is renowned for inventing the luxury SUV category in the 1970s with its original boxy, elevated, high-end off-roader. — New Atlas, 27 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inventing
  1. devising
  2. concocting
  3. constructing
  4. designing
Verb
  • Across product organizations, Microsoft executives have been devising ways to charge customers based on usage to better reflect rising costs.
    — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have thwarted that tyranny even more profoundly, by devising an ultra-fast way to steer light, using light itself as the steering wheel.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of devising
Verb
  • The figure concocting this foreign mist of positivity, Sumrall, grunted and frowned through the evening.
    — Noah White, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2026
  • So, too, do the antics of his estate manager (a buoyant Sam Adegoke), always concocting money-making schemes, and the wide-eyed adoration of the girl next door (Amelia Mason, deftly balancing naïveté with seductiveness), who wants to save him.
    — Rhoda Feng, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of concocting
Verb
  • Companies are racing into rural America to build not only data centers but facilities for the businesses constructing and servicing them.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Building faster without sacrificing design Monumental intends to expand beyond bricklaying into other parts of constructing a building’s shell.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of constructing
Verb
  • Broadcom has been one of the major winners of the AI boom, designing custom chips for companies including Google, Meta and OpenAI.
    — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
  • For this reason, Triola’s belief that a machine’s aggregation acumen presents chefs with an innovative tool for designing recipes strikes me as misguided.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of designing

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“Inventing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inventing. Accessed 8 Sep. 2026.

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