How to Use think up in a Sentence

think up

verb
  • If constantly thinking up new meals is a stressor for you, this may sound like good news.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Spin-offs and brand extensions The team is now busy thinking up spin-offs and brand extensions.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 18 Feb. 2026
  • My best friend lived above the restaurant where Churchill and Schuman thought up the EU.
    — Sara Stridsberg september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Setting a dating budget (see above) can inspire you to think up inexpensive dates, Mannes said.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 6 June 2026
  • When the pandemic hit, the organization began to think up what a new version of the headquarters might look like.
    — Simmone Shah, Time, 25 June 2026
  • These tools can help parents with nearly anything, including thinking up recipes, creating shopping lists in seconds, and even suggesting healthier swaps kids might actually eat.
    — Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 18 Nov. 2025
  • The Black Manhattan does not follow this rule, because when Todd Smith thought up the cocktail in 2005, the rule hadn’t been invented yet.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2026
  • The Black Manhattan does not follow this rule, because when Todd Smith thought up the cocktail in 2005, the rule hadn’t been invented yet.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2026
  • This is something that has also been contested by critics, who say the extra charges on electric and heating bills are the result of state climate policies – the vast majority of which supported by or thought up by Healey.
    — Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Not even Chris Hargensen, the organizer of Carrie’s prom-night humiliation, the meanest of all mean girls, could have thought up something so diabolical.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Its multinationals — like many — headed stateside to set up corporate venture capital arms in early 2000, in search of a slice of the action at the time when some of today’s largest companies were just being thought up in dorm rooms.
    — Tasmin Lockwood, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2025
  • This effort started when Arthur Sun, a first-year undergraduate student at the University of Cambridge, thought up a problem for a university math contest.
    — Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2025
  • It was thought up by HayMax Capital, a real estate investment firm based in Aspen responsible for a few other hospitality developments, luxury residences, and commercial projects in the area.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 June 2026
  • One of the team’s first breakout products was known as Project Tailwind, an AI notebook that senior product manager Raiza Martin thought up in her 20% time, Google’s longstanding practice of letting employees dedicate one day a week to a project of personal interest.
    — Jennifer Elias, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2025

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