as in devising
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination
the marketing department is trying to think up better ways to pitch our product to younger consumers
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Health ministry officials and the ministry of trade are also devising tax breaks to incentivize local manufacturing, said Modise.—
Alexis Akwagyiram,
semafor.com,
20 Feb. 2026 -
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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Reporters including Sheen can be seen concocting covert plots to meet with them face to face, the success or failure of which briefly becomes an intense point of interest.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
17 Feb. 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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As soon as the telescope began observations, the team started constructing a static reference image of the entire sky in impeccable detail.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
26 Feb. 2026
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The enviable problem in constructing their roster is that the Padres have multiple other viable candidates to log relief innings.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Feb. 2026
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Soldiers of the Army National Guard’s 28th Infantry Division have won an award for inventing a drone that uses a mechanism similar to an arcade claw machine to retrieve downed drones.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Feb. 2026
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The kid isn’t inventing injuries.—
Jerry Brewer,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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Chalamet was vital in drumming up the momentum for the original film, which remained a theatrical draw due to rave reviews and stellar word of mouth.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
8 Feb. 2026
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While the Indiana University football team prepares for Monday's College Football Playoff national championship game, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra is drumming up support this weekend on social media.—
Domenica Bongiovanni,
IndyStar,
17 Jan. 2026
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“Thinking (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thinking%20%28up%29. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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