1
as in producing
to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials
the company manufactures appliances and electronics
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as in devising
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination
he manufactured some story about how his car broke down and he was unable to call home and let anyone know that he would be late
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Recent Examples of manufacturing
This might look like manufacturing specialized materials at scale, building new quantum foundries, expanding the talent pipeline, advancing cooling technology, and mass-producing cryogenic equipment and materials with superconductive properties.
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Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
However, manufacturing rare earth magnets is highly complex and relies on upstream rare earth element mining and refining operations.
—Dylan Butts, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
Staff International is the manufacturing arm of OTB, which comprises the Diesel, Jil Sander, Maison Margiela, Marni and Viktor & Rolf brands, as well as the Brave Kid childrenswear producer.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
Tech minted 13% of billionaires, followed by manufacturing (11%), fashion and retail (10%), healthcare (7%), food and beverage (7%), real estate (7%), diversified industries (7%), media and entertainment (4%), and energy (4%).
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
On Friday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a legal settlement with four major plastic bag manufacturing companies to stop selling such bags in California.
—Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
Today, Ferrari is internationally recognized for its commitment to manufacturing some of the most thrilling sports cars the world has ever seen.
—Charles Singh, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
Each new optical function requires a separate device, driving up cost and complexity while lowering yields due to manufacturing imperfections.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
The Michelin Guide, compiled by the tire manufacturing company, was conceived as a travel guidebook that pointed out stops along roads, such as restaurants.
—Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 12 Oct. 2025
Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
However, manufacturing rare earth magnets is highly complex and relies on upstream rare earth element mining and refining operations.
—Dylan Butts, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
Staff International is the manufacturing arm of OTB, which comprises the Diesel, Jil Sander, Maison Margiela, Marni and Viktor & Rolf brands, as well as the Brave Kid childrenswear producer.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
Tech minted 13% of billionaires, followed by manufacturing (11%), fashion and retail (10%), healthcare (7%), food and beverage (7%), real estate (7%), diversified industries (7%), media and entertainment (4%), and energy (4%).
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
On Friday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a legal settlement with four major plastic bag manufacturing companies to stop selling such bags in California.
—Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
Today, Ferrari is internationally recognized for its commitment to manufacturing some of the most thrilling sports cars the world has ever seen.
—Charles Singh, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
Each new optical function requires a separate device, driving up cost and complexity while lowering yields due to manufacturing imperfections.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
The Michelin Guide, compiled by the tire manufacturing company, was conceived as a travel guidebook that pointed out stops along roads, such as restaurants.
—Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 12 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for manufacturing
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Unlike many recycling approaches, this method works across multiple plastics and even mixtures, producing gram-scale yields that point to real-world feasibility, as per the release.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Oct. 2025
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The humanities program will work with the arts board's Folk & Traditional Arts Apprenticeship program to train master and apprentice Wisconsin folk artists in planning and producing public programs that showcase and contextualize cultural traditions, stories and histories.—
Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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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
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The problem in devising such a tax is defining what constitutes a robot.—
Zach Halaschak,
The Washington Examiner,
10 Oct. 2025
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Parents who experience domestic and intimate partner violence are more likely to have decision-making power for their children, but are less likely to have primary placement — actual time with their kids — after family court involvement in Milwaukee County, according to a new study.—
Ashley Luthern,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Shirley had stumbled onto the Canal Street vendors while in New York making a video about Zohran Mamdani.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Microsoft is constructing a solar power plant in Portage County to put 250-megawatts back into the grid.—
Ricardo Torres,
jsonline.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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That estimate also doesn't include the cost of constructing a new facility in Houston to serve as the space shuttle's new home.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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But truths go ignored, the film argues, when everyone prefers inventing realities for themselves.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 2025
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By then, the preeminent fashion genius of the third quarter of the 20th century and the designer so often credited with inventing the modern woman’s wardrobe had handed prêt-à-porter over to his assistants, who clung as if by commandment to the house dogma of bourgeois Parisian elegance.—
Rob Haskell,
Vogue,
20 Oct. 2025
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China has also been concocting a pretext for action.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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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
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Using fractional diffusion theory, the research deepens understanding of transient charging behaviors in complex materials, which is key to designing high-performance components used for advanced engineering electrochemical systems in general.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when there were not enough ventilators for the patients who needed them, a team at NASA JPL was charged with designing a ventilator that could be rapidly produced without taking parts away from the critical medical supply chain.—
Michele Raphael,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Manufacturing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manufacturing. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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