trumping up

verb

present participle of trump up
as in devising
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination parents who were always trumping up little projects for their children to do around the house

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trumping up
  1. devising
  2. concocting
  3. constructing
  4. inventing
  5. drumming up
  6. making up
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  • Across product organizations, Microsoft executives have been devising ways to charge customers based on usage to better reflect rising costs.
    — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have thwarted that tyranny even more profoundly, by devising an ultra-fast way to steer light, using light itself as the steering wheel.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of devising
Verb
  • The figure concocting this foreign mist of positivity, Sumrall, grunted and frowned through the evening.
    — Noah White, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2026
  • So, too, do the antics of his estate manager (a buoyant Sam Adegoke), always concocting money-making schemes, and the wide-eyed adoration of the girl next door (Amelia Mason, deftly balancing naïveté with seductiveness), who wants to save him.
    — Rhoda Feng, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of concocting
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  • Companies are racing into rural America to build not only data centers but facilities for the businesses constructing and servicing them.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Building faster without sacrificing design Monumental intends to expand beyond bricklaying into other parts of constructing a building’s shell.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of constructing
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  • The system began inventing commitments the company had never made, promising callbacks from teams that didn’t exist and investigations nobody had opened.
    — Alison Coleman, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • His great-great-grandfather, Antonio Cansino, was widely credited with inventing modern-day Spanish dance.
    — Hannah Vanbiber, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of inventing
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  • The Basij boosted its presence during the war, and hard-liners have held nightly rallies in Tehran and other cities, drumming up support and intimidating any possible dissenters.
    — Lee Keath, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The Chicago school board voted to add two questions to the November ballot gauging whether city voters would support drumming up new revenue for Chicago Public Schools.
    — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of drumming up
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  • The project is expected to set aside 40% of its units as affordable for those making up to 60% of the area median income under federal guidelines.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2026
  • She was later wrongfully accused of making up the allegations and fired, while Durrah maintained his employment with the department, Tillman claimed in her complaint.
    — Amber Gaudet Updated August 20, Charlotte Observer, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of making up
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“Trumping up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trumping%20up. Accessed 9 Sep. 2026.

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