cook (up)

verb

Definition of cook (up)next
as in to devise
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination cooked up a scheme to get out of doing the dishes

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cook (up)
  1. devise
  2. construct
  3. concoct
  4. invent
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  • Plans are devised to miss an hour of work to catch the second half of an unexpectedly tight game between a ranked power conference team and a frisky mid-major.
    Mark Schindler, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The grant money will initially go to the state of North Carolina, and the governor’s office will devise a plan for how to distribute it, HUD spokesperson Zachary Nosanchuk said.
    Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of devise
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  • Topanga Ranch Motel: Also owned by the state parks department, the Topanga Ranch Motel was constructed in 1929 by newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst.
    Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The project will be constructed in phases on 2,000 of the 3,100 available acres south and west of the airport runways originally made available for a solar farm.
    Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of construct
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  • In what may well be a spy movie for actual adults, director Soderbergh and screenwriter David Koepp concoct a moody drama steeped in espionage, marital trust issues and, one hopes, prime opportunities for playing the pause, the side-eye and the steely glare along with the words.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Years later, both young women said under oath that police pressured them, using aggressive interrogation tactics that led them to concoct stories about Cox that were not true.
    Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of concoct
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  • As the political scientist Jeffrey Ding has shown, the dynamic U.S. system has consistently gained more from new technologies than even the countries that invented them.
    Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The flying balloon had only been invented a couple years before, by French brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of invent
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Thesaurus Entries Near cook (up)

cooks (up)

cook (up)

cool

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“Cook (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cook%20%28up%29. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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