as in devising
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination
they invented an explanation for the broken vase that would satisfy their grandmother
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Recent Examples of inventing
There has been quite a lot of progress lately in inventing brain-computer interfaces (BCI), also known as brain-machine interfaces (BMI).
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
All sixth graders from all nine schools in the Encinitas Union School District get to spend a week at the district’s Farm Lab taking part in Salad Wars, inventing their own organic salad dressing and competing against their classmates for the honor of The Golden Fork.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
Standardized communication protocols will keep AI-to-AI conversations in check and prevent them from inventing private languages.
—Erik Jost, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Most of the really fun books that are doing various dialects are also inventing things themselves—they’re not pure pastiche.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2025
Outside at High Noon in the mid-afternoon, the six-member lineup just sounded like themselves — a young band in the process of inventing something ecstatically new.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2025
Before inventing the skyscraper, Chicago was the traditional homeland of the people of the Council of Three Fires—the Ojibwe, Potawatomi and Odawa—as well as the Menominee, Miami, Ho-Chunk, Sac, Fox, Kickapoo, and Illinois nations.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Rather than saddle it with government harassment, let’s get government out of the way so that Visa can try its hand at inventing a payments future that will vastly improve on the present.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
But, is the human brain capable enough of completely inventing an entirely new state of matter?
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Feb. 2025
Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
All sixth graders from all nine schools in the Encinitas Union School District get to spend a week at the district’s Farm Lab taking part in Salad Wars, inventing their own organic salad dressing and competing against their classmates for the honor of The Golden Fork.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
Standardized communication protocols will keep AI-to-AI conversations in check and prevent them from inventing private languages.
—Erik Jost, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Most of the really fun books that are doing various dialects are also inventing things themselves—they’re not pure pastiche.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2025
Outside at High Noon in the mid-afternoon, the six-member lineup just sounded like themselves — a young band in the process of inventing something ecstatically new.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2025
Before inventing the skyscraper, Chicago was the traditional homeland of the people of the Council of Three Fires—the Ojibwe, Potawatomi and Odawa—as well as the Menominee, Miami, Ho-Chunk, Sac, Fox, Kickapoo, and Illinois nations.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Rather than saddle it with government harassment, let’s get government out of the way so that Visa can try its hand at inventing a payments future that will vastly improve on the present.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
But, is the human brain capable enough of completely inventing an entirely new state of matter?
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Feb. 2025
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“Inventing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inventing. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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