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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Netflix's limited series was thought up after a significant event in modern U.S. history Comments Creator Stephen Belber conceived The Madness not long after the U.S. Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. —

Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024 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. —

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 See all Example Sentences for think up