as in to devise
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination
anyone who drums up a better way of doing this tedious task will make a fortune
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Recent Examples of drum up
This play doesn’t drum up hatred.
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Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
Labels drum up anticipation for these releases by distributing different variants to different retailers, keeping a tight lid on which version each store will carry.
—Heather Bushman, IndyStar, 1 Oct. 2025
Sales in Greater China fell for the fifth straight quarter for the three months ended August 31 as Nike struggled to drum up demand in the face of stiff competition from domestic brands including Anta and Li-Ning.
—CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
The White House has leaned on that reporting to drum up claims that the incident was no accident.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
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Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
Labels drum up anticipation for these releases by distributing different variants to different retailers, keeping a tight lid on which version each store will carry.
—Heather Bushman, IndyStar, 1 Oct. 2025
Sales in Greater China fell for the fifth straight quarter for the three months ended August 31 as Nike struggled to drum up demand in the face of stiff competition from domestic brands including Anta and Li-Ning.
—CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
The White House has leaned on that reporting to drum up claims that the incident was no accident.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drum up
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The British military historian John Keegan revealed the hazards of this kind of planning in his anatomy of the Schlieffen Plan, the German strategy for fighting a two-front continental war that was devised, in 1905, by the chief of the army’s general staff, Alfred von Schlieffen.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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Anime giant Crunchyroll has partnered with Luminopia, a digital health company that devises new treatments for significant neuro-visual disorders, for a new VR treatment for kids with lazy eye (amblyopia).—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Oct. 2025
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Radiolarian skeletons are typically constructed of an orderly mesh of rigid polygons.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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As for what's happened to the donations over the years, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently reported that Morehouse College officials will use the $20 million donation the school received to construct a new campus center building.—
Jillian Frankel,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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Even so, del Toro has not merely concocted another Whale of a tale.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2025
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Each district sends two children as tributes to the fight-to-the-death Hunger Games, concocted by the capitol to keep the populace distracted.—
Adam Bell,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Oct. 2025
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In particular, screens mated to computers, the most flexible machines ever invented.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
23 Oct. 2025
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Then unlimited human creativity invents new jobs that deliver more value overall, and living standards rise.—
Geoff Colvin,
Fortune,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Drum up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drum%20up. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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