orchestrating

verb

present participle of orchestrate
as in designing
to work out the details and guide the doing or making of (something) She orchestrated a brilliant publicity campaign.

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Recent Examples of orchestrating The latest example came on Wednesday when the Department of Justice indicted a man on securities and wire fraud charges for allegedly orchestrating a $10 million cryptocurrency scheme through his crypto startup, Few and Far. — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026 In 2024, Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison for orchestrating what prosecutors have called one of the biggest financial frauds in American history. — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026 What used to be just a one-button trigger to call up an app has evolved into a multi-button, multi-input device for supervising and orchestrating multiple AI tools and agents at once. — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 3 Aug. 2026 In addition to Márquez's killing, Álvarez Ayala is accused of financing and orchestrating the assassination of Uruapan Mayor Carlos Manzo, who was shot during Day of the Dead celebrations in November 2025. — Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 3 Aug. 2026 With the guardrails in place, autonomous operations focus on orchestrating outcomes across an entire workflow rather than automating individual tasks. — Deepak Kumar, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 The ringleader, Aimee Bock, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for orchestrating a scheme which diverted roughly $250 million of government funds meant to feed hungry children. — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 31 July 2026 The stereotypical tokenmaxxer was staying up late — perhaps ignoring their significant other — while orchestrating an army of 24-hour AI agents performing work on their behalf. — Matt O’Brien, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026 In 2023, Ian was convicted of conspiracy to commit cyberstalking, cyberstalking, perjury and obstruction of justice for orchestrating the scheme that led to Hadley’s wrongful imprisonment. — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 25 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for orchestrating
  1. designing
  2. managing
  3. planning
  4. coordinating
  5. organizing
  6. crafting
  7. plotting
  8. preparing
Verb
  • More recently, Dean and Vinyals played a key role in designing Google’s Gemini AI models.
    — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2026
  • In 2013, Aflalo started designing and manufacturing clothes along with tailoring, and began selling them through a website.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of designing
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  • The Raiders are managing a knee ailment that caused McCoy to drop to the fourth round in April’s NFL Draft.
    — Sam Warren, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Katsis was adept at managing major live acts, overseeing rollouts like Backstreet Boys’ Into the Millennium Tour and helping morph Korn and Limp Bizkit into perennial arena acts.
    — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of managing
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  • The unexpected weekend getaway While planning ahead is crucial during the busy summer months, some of the best memories come from those spur-of-the-moment trips.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Rebuilding global inventories would take about 18 months, even before accounting for new storage facilities that countries are planning as part of their energy security strategies.
    — Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of planning
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  • That could allow crews to focus more heavily on decisions rather than manually coordinating every step of an unmanned aircraft’s mission.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026
  • That meant buying equipment and uniforms but also coordinating admissions, food and housing for them.
    — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of coordinating
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  • Available in lengths from 1 to 10 feet, these make an easy solution for organizing and powering your space.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
  • However, for birders like Annyta Vizard, who spent years organizing bird walks at White Farm, the property means more than just agriculture.
    — Tran Chau, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of organizing
Verb
  • Meg Murray's hobby of crafting small rats out of soft material turned into something much bigger - a tiny neighborhood attraction where anyone can stop by and adopt one.
    — Crystal McQuay, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Not that director Kate Dolan and her co-writer Rafael Jordan aren’t up to the task of crafting a slick erotic thriller reminiscent of ‘80s and ‘90s sleaze shockers, updated to the AI era to center on a fembot gone wild.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of crafting
Verb
  • The Voyagers have been skirting this dismal fate for years now, with NASA engineers carefully monitoring each spacecraft’s power supplies and plotting out when to turn off individual instruments to keep the missions going as long as possible.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2026
  • While this reunion was happening, Juke was watching from a safe distance, plotting.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of plotting
Verb
  • DeLeo and her family were spending Saturday at home preparing for their nephew’s 4th birthday party, one day before they were supposed to drive to Uniontown for the funeral of their beloved aunt, when the alert about the fire came.
    — Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
  • An Alaska Airlines flight preparing to depart Miami International Airport for Seattle reported a disturbance involving threats from customers Sunday evening, according to air traffic control audio.
    — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of preparing

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