think (up)

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Verb
  • The pampering sanctuary, which includes seven treatment rooms, a sauna, and a plunge pool, was devised to celebrate the destination’s culture of massage, yoga, and well-being across experiences that speak to and rejuvenate the mind, body, and spirit.
    Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2025
  • In Dallas, the city manager is the CEO, the person who devises the city's $5.2 billion budget and oversees over 13,000 employees.
    Naheed Rajwani-Dharsi, Axios, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Our businesses and residents depend on Canadian products – from lumber to construct housing to dairy products, energy and more.
    Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 4 Feb. 2025
  • It's designed to be so easy and simple to construct that one person, without any help or tools, can set it up and start living the tiny life.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Werfel concocted a more tortuous explanation for his wife’s grotesque behavior.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Director Josh Ruben, along with screenwriters Phillip Murphy, Christopher Landon and Michael Kennedy, craftily concocts a sweetly sinister genre mashup, blending romantic comedy tropes with slasher movie fodder.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Read Benjamin Wallace-Wells on the man who invented the conflict over critical race theory and Jessica Winter on the conservative activists using attacks on diversity to wage a wider battle on public education.
    Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Companies prey on insecurities, selling solutions to invented problems.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2025
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