Cook up
Cook up verb - To create or think of by clever use of the imagination.
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Any good programmer who doesn't cook up useful widgets for his phone, or contribute to some open source project, or hack together little video games, or something in his free time is an odd duck.
Source: Busman's Holiday -
Known knowns, known unknowns, and as many unknown unknowns as their brains can cook up; they have an entire ongoing project specifically for coming up with and preparing for outside-context problems - such as the universe spontaneously collapsing.
Source: Tabletop Game / Eclipse Phase
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