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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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 More more than 1,200 nonprofits signed up for the initiative which was thought up only four months ago by Chariot, an online payments company whose DAFpay app can turn the traditionally labor-intensive process of giving from a DAF into a much more spontaneous three-click process. —

David Hessekiel, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for think up