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
But as productivity improves with the advanced tech, business leaders will only continue to drum up even more revolutionary ideas, which will require a constant flow of work from humans.
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Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
Still more protesters will be there to drum up support for Proposition 50, the ballot measure that could reshape the state’s congressional map and deliver up to five new Democratic seats in the US House.
—Katie Lauer, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
The hope is that leaking this footage, as well as other assets in the coming weeks, will drum up the buzz needed to get the movie made.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
This play doesn’t drum up hatred.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
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Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
Still more protesters will be there to drum up support for Proposition 50, the ballot measure that could reshape the state’s congressional map and deliver up to five new Democratic seats in the US House.
—Katie Lauer, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
The hope is that leaking this footage, as well as other assets in the coming weeks, will drum up the buzz needed to get the movie made.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
This play doesn’t drum up hatred.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 2 Oct. 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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Xuexin Duan, who leads the Tianjin University group, and his colleagues set out to invent a tool that would not only lessen the threat to cells during the isolation process, but speed the whole process up.—
Perri Thaler,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 Oct. 2025
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George Renninger, an employee at Wunderle Candy Company in Philadelphia, invented candy corn in the 1880s, according to the History Channel.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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