invent
verb (used with object)
to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance.
are inventing
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present progressiveof invent.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Even as some of America’s young voters are lapping up Mamdani, others are inventing artificial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
“Together with Corning, we are inventing the future of computing with advanced optical technologies.”
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
"There is no such field as captivity medicine, and we are inventing it," said Dr Steinman told the BBC on Saturday, after the team learned the identities of the hostages they would be treating.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025
Foreign law enforcement agencies need access to that data to do their jobs, and governments the world over, including in Beijing and Moscow, are inventing ingenious ways of ensuring that access.
From Slate ● Feb. 7, 2022
But you give to your song a new expression; the air you are singing, one would think you are inventing it, and you impart to it a magical charm.
From The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt by Frederick C. de (Frederick Caesar de) Sumichrast
