- present participle of invent.
inventing
Example Sentences
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The adults would engage in animated conversation, usually about current events, while we, the dozen or so kids, kept ourselves busy inventing games.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
"We are too often good at inventing technologies but too slow at turning them into global companies," said EU lawmaker Axel Voss, who has pushed for Europe's technological sovereignty.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Because the more Seemiller studies Gen Z, the more she finds a generation responding rationally to the world it inherited — not inventing entirely new values out of thin air.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
A company that spends a decade and a fortune inventing a miracle prices it high and counts on a determined few to pay, often leaving everyone else out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
When not sleeping or studying, Thetans were fond of video games, constructing and solving elaborate puzzles, playing, inventing, and reimagining board games, and pretending to kill one another as part of live-action Mafia games.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
