concoct
verb (used with object)
to prepare or make by combining ingredients, especially in cooking.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Gentlemen," he said, "I think I am a little late, but that devil of a Thuillier is the most intolerable of human beings about a pamphlet I am concocting for him.
From The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honoré de Balzac