ideated

verb

Definition of ideatednext
past tense of ideate
as in imagined
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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  1. imagined
  2. envisioned
  3. conceived
  4. saw
  5. dreamed
  6. visualized
Verb
  • These would be similar to what the parties themselves imagined in the 2022 Istanbul Communiqué.
    Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2024
  • That's not the sort of transformation of energy systems many had imagined for the turn of this decade.
    Gaurav Sharma, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of imagined
Verb
  • The system as envisioned in the First Amendment, that the government cannot interfere with the freedom of the press, is working precisely as the Founders thought.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 24 Dec. 2024
  • At a June meeting, the City Council approved modifications to the project, including replacing trees slated for removal with larger trees than previously envisioned and adding shade structures to cover the sidewalk.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of envisioned
Verb
  • Festivus was originally conceived by author Daniel O’Keefe as a celebration of the anniversary of his first date with his future wife.
    Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 23 Dec. 2024
  • That plan, conceived after a decade of planning for Amtrak’s replacement project, would have left the piers intact and was supported by Perryville’s mayor and commissioners.
    Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of conceived
Verb
  • The guns were sawed into pieces and turned into scrap metal, prompting outrage from the trade association National Shooting Sports Foundation and the National Rifle Association.
    Jemima McEvoy, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Doctors still will need to practice sawing into bone and suturing muscles.
    Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of saw
Verb
  • Somewhere, Bing and Rosemary dreamt of one more White Christmas.
    Gráinne O'Hara Belluomo, WWD, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Published on December 21, 2024 Anyone who has read Thomas Mann’s classic The Magic Mountain has dreamed of (and dreaded) the idea of a rest cure in an isolated Swiss health resort.
    Brett Braley, Robb Report, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of dreamed
Verb
  • Miranda collborates with Actias wearing bespoke gloves designed in his Plymouth lab that translate hand gestures into control parameters to constantly change sounds by manipulating qubits, visualized on screen as a sphere.
    Leslie Katz, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The characters are visualized by artist Yann Kebbi as raw, flickering drawings overlaid atop the documentary imagery to lead us around the city.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of visualized
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