ideates

verb

present tense third-person singular of ideate
as in imagines
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 Synonyms for ideates
  1. imagines
  2. envisions
  3. sees
  4. dreams
  5. pictures
  6. features
  7. fancies
Verb
  • The Komlós conjecture imagines each person (or object) as an arrow of length 1 called a unit vector.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The show imagines communities centered on the Mississippi River, which flows through Minneapolis, and the installation echoes a riverbed, with platforms approximating islands.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of imagines
Verb
  • Instacart envisions a future where online and in-store experiences are unified, transforming physical stores into intelligent networks, though customer trust and operational fit remain paramount for widespread adoption.
    — Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Krebs envisions the same controller mounted directly in a real cabin, functioning almost like a prosthetic, an oversized extension of the operator's arm.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of envisions
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  • Peel, who is an expert on the Mexican cattle trade, told CNN that screwworm isn’t the primary force behind high cattle prices, and sees the issue as a fig-leaf for a broader anti-free trade agenda.
    — Max Saltman, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
  • The 2017 sketch sees Matt Damon claiming to be the father of Kimmel’s child with wife Molly McNearney, and Povich was supposed to adjudicate the dispute.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of sees
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  • Hailing from humble beginnings in Greenwood, South Carolina, his experiences with football have always been centered around doing the impossible – dreams his father put in his head at an early age.
    — Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2026
  • These rumors were never substantiated—but Harry did reference his mother’s California dreams in the 2022 Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan, per PopSugar.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of dreams
Verb
  • Petrarch pictures the ghosts of Homer and Ennius together, and Homer’s ghost points out to Ennius a solitary figure, Francescus, working on a great epic poem, Africa.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
  • And Trey pictures his dad still in the third base coach’s box for the Dodgers.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
Definition of pictures
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  • The Buc-ee’s beaver logo features the face of a beaver with prominent buck teeth wearing a red ball cap against a yellow backdrop.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Divine, which similarly features a scrolling feed of six-second videos, officially launched last week after nine months of development and beta testing.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of features
Verb
  • Either way, this is a dangerous way for a team that fancies itself as a perennial contender to annually live.
    — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 10 July 2026
  • On the one hand, Ramsay fancies himself as a footballer.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 24 June 2026
Definition of fancies
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“Ideates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideates. Accessed 28 Aug. 2026.

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