think up
phrasal verb
thought up; thinking up; thinks up
informal
: to use one's mind to form or invent (something)
Quick! We have to think up an excuse.
They thought up a new way of raising money for charity.
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Still, the Taylor Swift x Girl Dad commercial is pretty effective — whoever thought up that friendship-bracelet shot should get to make a short film, stat.
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2024
One of our challenges was thinking up a good chinking method that wouldn’t take an entire month.
—Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 24 Oct. 2024
In it, a young woman who creates new identities at an extraterritorial witness protection program meets a guy at a bar one night whose personal story is exactly the same as one of the identities she’s thought up.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 23 Oct. 2024
The answers are not being thought up in the moment.
—Michael Calore, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2024
One of our challenges was thinking up a good chinking method that wouldn’t take an entire month.
—Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 24 Oct. 2024
In it, a young woman who creates new identities at an extraterritorial witness protection program meets a guy at a bar one night whose personal story is exactly the same as one of the identities she’s thought up.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 23 Oct. 2024
The answers are not being thought up in the moment.
—Michael Calore, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Think up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/think%20up. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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