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trumping up

verb

present participle of trump up

as in devising

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination parents who were always trumping up little projects for their children to do around the house

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Across product organizations, Microsoft executives have been devising ways to charge customers based on usage to better reflect rising costs.

— Jordan Novet, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
Now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have thwarted that tyranny even more profoundly, by devising an ultra-fast way to steer light, using light itself as the steering wheel.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Aug. 2026

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Compass is constructing five hyperscale data centers on the former Sears Headquarters campus.

— John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026
This includes repairing roofs, modernizing classrooms, upgrading heating and cooling systems, improving security and constructing new buildings.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2026

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Across both commercial ambient platforms and general-purpose models applied to clinical documentation, the more common failure is under-capture rather than inventing what wasn’t said.

— Pat Williams, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
For a guy who's such a prominent African-American to try to get in on the conversation by inventing something that never took place.

— Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 8 Sep. 2026

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The Basij boosted its presence during the war, and hard-liners have held nightly rallies in Tehran and other cities, drumming up support and intimidating any possible dissenters.

— Lee Keath, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
The Chicago school board voted to add two questions to the November ballot gauging whether city voters would support drumming up new revenue for Chicago Public Schools.

— Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026

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The Grotto of Massabielle is one of the 22 sites making up the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026
The project is expected to set aside 40% of its units as affordable for those making up to 60% of the area median income under federal guidelines.

— Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2026

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