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Synonyms

dream up

British  

verb

  1. (tr, adverb) to invent by ingenuity and imagination

    to dream up an excuse for leaving
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
dream up Idioms  

  1. Invent, concoct, as in Count on her to dream up some explanation for her absence. This expression replaced the somewhat earlier dream out. [c. 1940]

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For all the thrill of seeing world you dreamed up realised in another medium, there's a less romantic reason for TV and game studios to get behind adaptations.

From BBC

It sounds like something only the San Francisco tech scene could dream up: A newborn’s first-ever car ride takes place without a driver.

From Los Angeles Times

Breaking the buck isn’t a hypothetical risk dreamed up by pessimists with too much time and not enough sunlight.

From MarketWatch

Occasionally, I got transformations so wild—or horrific—they could only be dreamed up with AI.

From The Wall Street Journal

Wake him up in the middle of night, and he is probably dreaming up ideas about AI.

From The Wall Street Journal

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