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
But it’s telling that the places Aussie writers are inventing are often so geographically vague — so generically featureless, so uniformly desolate — they could be plonked almost anywhere on the national map.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2022
Our politicians are awake to the need and are inventing every kind of machinery for bringing Capital and Labour together in Council Chambers as co-partners in the Commerce of the Empire.
From The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918 by D. H. S. (David Herbert Somerset) Cranage
