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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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 -
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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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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The transactions function purely as a salary dump and an attempt to recoup draft picks, all for the purpose of constructing a roster around Flagg.—
Mike Curtis,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Feb. 2026
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As a former college hoops player, Kansan and Jayhawk, Woodland would know what to look for in constructing a starting five.—
Maddie Hartley,
Kansas City Star,
5 Feb. 2026
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Known for inventing the Giant Bar and Candy Raisins, the Ziegler company became one of Wisconsin’s largest candy companies.—
Elaine Rewolinski,
jsonline.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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Thomas Edison had many misses inventing the lightbulb.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
24 Jan. 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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Perhaps the only thing capable of drumming up a Bardian level of attention would be for a famous person—probably Julia Fox—walking the red carpet in nothing but a pair of Pleasers.—
Daniel Rodgers,
Vogue,
28 Dec. 2025
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With Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb solely making up for nearly 37% of the team's cap, there's not much to go around.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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In the same time frame, the number of homes that are valued at $500,000 went from 5% to 25% of the city’s housing stock — making up a quarter of what’s available in Olathe.—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
10 Jan. 2026
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