MANUFACTURING Synonyms: 96 Similar and Opposite Words

manufacturing

verb

present participle of manufacture

as in producing

to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials the company manufactures appliances and electronics

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as in devising

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination he manufactured some story about how his car broke down and he was unable to call home and let anyone know that he would be late

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Recent Examples of manufacturing In Wyoming, Hammack recounted her recent visit with a group of manufacturing plant workers in Erie, Pennsylvania. — Brian Cheung, NBC news, 28 Aug. 2026 An elementary school teacher in the Philadelphia suburbs has been arrested and charged with manufacturing child pornography, federal officials said. — Laura Fay, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026 Here’s more from Food writer Susan Selasky who traveled to the hub of the salt mines to understand Diamond Crystal's method for manufacturing salt. — Leah Olajide, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2026 Voya plans to use the new funding for further technology development and initial deployments in 2027, followed by manufacturing scale-up in 2028. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2026 But Putin may see attacking a NATO country as an unprecedented opportunity to break the alliance, by manufacturing a crisis in which the United States fails to act. — Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2026 The report shows manufacturing leasing was up 27% year over year. — Diana Olick, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026 Under the plan, Pakistani textile and denim manufacturing company, Artistic Milliners, will establish a manufacturing unit with an investment of more than $18 million, incorporating vertical integration and green technologies. — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 20 Aug. 2026 This shifts manufacturing intelligence from periodic reporting to continuous awareness. — Claudio Laterreur, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026

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Finite’s founder, Amy Gardner, has producing credits on the likes of And Then Come the Nightjars, La Bohème, Honeytrap, and My House, and worked on the stage productions of Nuclear Children and The Joy of Text.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 26 Aug. 2026
Those numbers should prompt serious questions about what is happening in classrooms and whether NYC Reads — the city’s sweeping changes to reading instruction — is producing the results students need.

— Katie Pace Miles, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026

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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
Now Iran’s hardline leadership is devising and promoting its own strategy for continued confrontation with Washington.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of devising

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In addition to Broadway, the show has played in nine countries across four continents since making its West End debut in 2019.

— Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 27 Aug. 2026
Despite that footprint, the basic cement-making process has changed relatively little since the material was invented in 1824.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of making

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Asante draws a manufacturing analogy—with some exaggeration—arguing that previous nuclear power plants were built bespoke, akin to constructing an entire factory to produce a single car.

— Jordan Blum, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
Mendoza, of the Philippine Tennis Association, told me that new public courts are being built around the country, and the government is constructing a new national tennis center.

— Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026

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His great-great-grandfather, Antonio Cansino, was widely credited with inventing modern-day Spanish dance.

— Hannah Vanbiber, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Whether inventing the Bong-a-Tron or freeing themselves after hours trapped inside a Party City parking lot, these misadventures almost always hinge on weed.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of inventing

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Others have discovered that designing an impressive concept and manufacturing a safe, reliable vehicle at scale are two very different challenges.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2026
Adam Mosseri was called to the stand on Tuesday as part of a 2026 federal trial against Meta in which 29 state attorneys accuse the company of designing its wares to addict minors.

— Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026

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