How to Use ideate in a Sentence

ideate

verb
  • The freedom to think and ideate opens the door for new improvements for the business.
    Veronica Buitron, Forbes, 12 July 2022
  • And no one has the time to ideate a dinner that is easy for a toddler to make every night.
    Hetal Vasavada, Bon Appétit, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Gift your foodie a fun way to ideate new meals with these foodie dice.
    Cnn Underscored Staff, CNN Underscored, 9 Dec. 2020
  • And this tool allows people to ideate and create in new ways.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Take a good look at your calendar for the next 30 days, and schedule in time to ideate and collaborate.
    Venus Australis, refinery29.com, 23 June 2019
  • This creates space for people to think and do, ideate and find their inspiration.
    Shannon Brooks, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The greatest need in innovation is having the runway to ideate freely and often.
    Quartz Creative For Baker Tilly, Quartz, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The caffeine seems to pull the two control centers together to innovate and ideate.
    Ira Gostin, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • These covers from the past just give us more inspiration for the future as nostalgia is the best place to start when ideating new ideas.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The cause for this was ideated when, after working at a university, Green saw an uptick in college dropout rates.
    Pauleanna Reid, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • This team should be able to help ideate, iterate, deploy and learn while observing and respecting the scope and budget.
    Prateek Chakravarty, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • The genesis of these shows came from what Swift described at one point during the concert as a year-and-a-half-long process ideating the tour, from conceptual sketches to the finished product.
    William Earl, Variety, 27 May 2023
  • The conversations and ideating that happen at work are so inspiring and, of course, spill over into my personal life.
    Café Appliances, Bon Appétit, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Ogboh used his typical process—sending out questionnaires asking for one flavor to define a place—to ideate Japa.
    Emma Balter, Chron, 26 Oct. 2022
  • And because of such, you’re now positioned to help others ideate and expand their visions for also becoming entrepreneurs and launching their own businesses.
    Farshad Asl, Forbes, 23 May 2022
  • Aside from serving as a natural place to convene and ideate out loud, offices can also function as a refuge from the manifold distractions plaguing workers at their home office.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2023
  • This atmosphere is essential for all workers to ideate, create and innovate while having their ideas and opinions given equal treatment.
    Dave Buss, Forbes, 4 May 2022
  • That is why Ayanna Smith, a tech entrepreneur and mother of two currently fighting breast cancer, ideated the app Journey Together.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The flexibility to ideate and run with new ideas breeds proactivity, an important driving force for promotion.
    Alan Price, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The ability to rapidly ideate and test is critical to a digital CX environment that wants to remain competitive.
    Andrew Kokes, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • In practice, this means ideating, designing, and manufacturing offerings that are all but absent in the beauty space, like highlighters and bronzers that work for all skin tones, especially those on the darker end of the spectrum.
    Shammara Lawrence, Allure, 30 Apr. 2018
  • While there’s still very little known about the brand, on purpose, the aesthetics and story are inanely compelling, politically important, and perhaps socially radical for the city in which the clothes are ideated.
    Mathias Rosenzweig, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Then, give participants 10 minutes to ideate as many Impossibles related to that topic.
    Lisa Bodell, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The Levan Center is based on four principles: ideate, incubate, accelerate and post-accelerate.
    Scott Luxor, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • If an idea impacts a client, it will be implemented and recognized, leading to an empowered, ideating learning organization.
    Karen Walker, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Created by Complex in 2016, the festival is another opportunity for brands, influencers, and the public to collaborate and ideate, but mostly to eat, shop, and enjoy performances.
    Shalwah Evans, Essence, 22 July 2019
  • Since joining the Southern Living team in 2016, Katie has been dedicated to growing some of the brand's most successful pillars and franchises while ideating, editing, and writing digital content geared toward audience interests and search trends.
    Katie Strasberg Rousso, Southern Living, 28 June 2023
  • Islands have always been ripe for troublemakers and hijinks — actual pirate captains, not just imaginary ones ideated in suburbia.
    Alison Fields, Longreads, 25 July 2019
  • The possibilities for using this technology to ideate, problem solve and improve processes across industries are endless.
    Lee Henderson, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Last year, after announcing record sales but also slower growth and lower earnings, Pichai told employees in a town hall that the company was launching a company-wide initiative to ideate ways to improve productivity and efficiency.
    Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023

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