ideating

verb

present participle of ideate
as in imagining
to form a mental picture of the psychotic would repeatedly ideate the act of committing murder, and eventually he came to believe his own delusions

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Recent Examples of ideating Rhone’s specialty is ideating activewear that seamlessly fills the gap between work and play. — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 4 June 2026 Hauber and Jeffs began ideating on their film and TV production company 2023 while Hauber was producing the musical Rock of Ages at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2026 Congressional Republicans are ideating about domestic policy. — Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 30 Jan. 2026 With days spent ideating at Hudson cafés and nights spent jamming around Dessner's Long Pond Studio's kitchen table, Mumford & Sons tapped into the essence of rediscovery while creating Prizefighter. — Chris Barilla, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ideating
  1. imagining
  2. envisioning
  3. dreaming
  4. seeing
  5. conceiving
  6. visualizing
  7. picturing
Verb
  • Abundance is committed to the progress and pluralism that are the best of cities, imagining a future of radical plenty.
    — Ryder Kessler, New York Daily News, 26 July 2026
  • Books are now asked to function simultaneously as texts and as lifestyle objects, and designers are now tasked with imagining multiple scales of reach simultaneously, from the bookstore table to the phone screen.
    — Madelyn Johnson, Literary Hub, 24 July 2026
Definition of imagining
Verb
  • Several of the roads were constructed with pedestrians in mind first, envisioning the fan march from the Landing to CPKC Stadium on match days.
    — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026
  • The only thing harder than envisioning the end of capitalism is trying to imagine a readable book written by (or attributed to) a contemporary American political figure.
    — Matthew Walther, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
Definition of envisioning
Verb
  • That means dreaming about Black liberation, not as an impossibility but as something that will come to fruition.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 July 2026
  • Keegan made Newcastle dream and pre-season is made for dreaming (just forget today’s result).
    — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 25 July 2026
Definition of dreaming
Verb
  • And the actor believes there is a power in seeing only the before and aftermath of the killing.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Aug. 2026
  • There was the guy Daemon stabbed through the ear, and then the smelly killers Gwayne sniffed out, and now Ser Adrian, who took a knife to the throat within seconds of seeing Aemond.
    — Brian Grubb, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of seeing
Verb
  • Doctors estimate the odds of conceiving spontaneous identical quadruplets at roughly 1 in 15 million.
    — Daniela Suarez, NBC news, 21 July 2026
  • The best intentions absolutely go out the window, for almost any writer, when faced with the reality of conceiving an entire world; what to include, what to cut, what is absolutely necessary and what can be left in an older draft.
    — Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of conceiving
Verb
  • The feature launched globally on the web version of Google Earth earlier this week, and Google’s blog post pitched it as a tool for visualizing historical sites and real estate projects.
    — Stevie Bonifield, The Verge, 31 July 2026
  • Other use cases for Google Earth’s image generation include visualizing future or imaginary projects.
    — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 31 July 2026
Definition of visualizing
Verb
  • Where to Eat and Drink The Salt Lick BBQ is likely what many out-of-state visitors imagine when picturing Central Texas-style barbecue—and its backstory is just as flavorful as its brisket.
    — Kat Stinson, Travel + Leisure, 18 July 2026
  • Jones argues that the standard template many people imagine when picturing a dragon—wings, reptilian scales, and sharp teeth—is a kind of composite of humanity’s earliest predators.
    — Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 15 July 2026
Definition of picturing

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“Ideating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideating. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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