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
The tiny two-door was imagined as a replacement for the Fiat 850 Spider, which the coachbuilder had been manufacturing for the Italian automaker.
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Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2026
It is involved in infrastructure support, manufacturing heavy equipment (like excavators, loaders, forklifts through Doosan Bobcat), power generation (turbines, generators), water treatment (desalination), and advanced materials (electronics, fuel cells).
—Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Sophia Chu works with sourcing and production teams at Rovo on the operational and supply-chain consequences of product durability decisions across manufacturing partners in Portugal.
—Sophia Chu, Sourcing Journal, 22 Jan. 2026
The record-breaking bid for Thunder was placed by an agricultural manufacturing company founded by Buck Hutchison, a founder of the junior livestock auction who died in 2024.
—Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2026
Stevens said the third reason is the relatively low cost of manufacturing the pill, which is a small-molecule drug.
—Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2026
The material can also be deposited at relatively low temperatures, lowering manufacturing energy demands and supporting scalable, cost-effective production.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 20 Jan. 2026
Rare earths and the magnets made from them are used heavily by militaries in weapons like fighter jets, drones and missiles, and are also critical for manufacturing goods such as smartphones and electric vehicles.
—Josh Xiao Bloomberg, Arkansas Online, 7 Jan. 2026
Raytheon also owns Pratt and Whitney, a company that is responsible for manufacturing a host of jet engines that power aircraft for all the military branches, including the newest F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
—CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2026
It is involved in infrastructure support, manufacturing heavy equipment (like excavators, loaders, forklifts through Doosan Bobcat), power generation (turbines, generators), water treatment (desalination), and advanced materials (electronics, fuel cells).
—Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Sophia Chu works with sourcing and production teams at Rovo on the operational and supply-chain consequences of product durability decisions across manufacturing partners in Portugal.
—Sophia Chu, Sourcing Journal, 22 Jan. 2026
The record-breaking bid for Thunder was placed by an agricultural manufacturing company founded by Buck Hutchison, a founder of the junior livestock auction who died in 2024.
—Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2026
Stevens said the third reason is the relatively low cost of manufacturing the pill, which is a small-molecule drug.
—Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2026
The material can also be deposited at relatively low temperatures, lowering manufacturing energy demands and supporting scalable, cost-effective production.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 20 Jan. 2026
Rare earths and the magnets made from them are used heavily by militaries in weapons like fighter jets, drones and missiles, and are also critical for manufacturing goods such as smartphones and electric vehicles.
—Josh Xiao Bloomberg, Arkansas Online, 7 Jan. 2026
Raytheon also owns Pratt and Whitney, a company that is responsible for manufacturing a host of jet engines that power aircraft for all the military branches, including the newest F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
—CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for manufacturing
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The Oh-My-God particle first interacted with an atomic nucleus in the upper atmosphere, producing a series of daughter particles that each maintain a fraction of the original particle’s momentum, which then collide with greater and greater numbers of particles, and so on.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
30 Jan. 2026
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The cattle there are raised in open-air conditions and fed for precisely 600 to 650 days, producing uniquely tender beef with subtle umami.—
Alaina Chou,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
30 Jan. 2026
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And commissioners spent all that time devising the College Sports Commission in an attempt to stabilize the NIL/portal market, then sit back and let one school in their conference steal yet another star QB half an hour before the portal closes.—
Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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The 40-year-old cooks up ways to make quarterbacks miserable in his sleep, devising schemes that are meant to lure as much as they are intended to confuse.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
10 Jan. 2026
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Also, the cold weather is forecast to get much worse from Sunday, with temperatures dropping even further and making the time frame for a pause in attacks hard to understand.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 Jan. 2026
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But in elite-level sport, there is also a danger in dreading the consequences of making a mistake.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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The nonprofit expects to spend another $6 million over the next couple years constructing its new campus.—
Sara B. Hansen,
Denver Post,
31 Jan. 2026
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Is Mark Zuckerberg constructing a gold mine or a financial sinkhole?—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Thomas Edison had many misses inventing the lightbulb.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
24 Jan. 2026
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Created by Terry Nation, the man credited with inventing the Daleks, Blake’s 7 aired for four seasons on the BBC from 1978 to 1981.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
19 Jan. 2026
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The reality is that the AI is concocting elaborate personas, faking as though humans are writing about human woes.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Both activities can be fairly ordinary hobbies—games of imagination not so different from crushing on a pop star or concocting stories about a film protagonist.—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
17 Jan. 2026
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There are also some clever design details, such as the hidden metal speaker grilles, a nod to Bang & Olufsen’s ethos of designing products outside in and inside out with an eye for detail.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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In their announcement, the Teamsters cast their entry into the campaign as striking back at the artificial intelligence companies designing technologies that threaten the jobs of the union’s roughly 250,000 members.—
Andrew Graham,
Sacbee.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Manufacturing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manufacturing. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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