orchestrate
/ˈɔɹ.kəˌstɹeɪt/ verb C2- To arrange or score music for performance by an orchestra.
- To compose or arrange orchestral music for a dramatic performance. · Sergio Leone orchestrated "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".
- To arrange or direct diverse elements to achieve a desired effect · Orchestrated histories are not fact-based.
He/she/it orchestrates · Past orchestrated · Past participle orchestrated · -ing form orchestrating
Verb forms
- Base form
- orchestrate
- He/she/it
- orchestrates
- Past
- orchestrated
- Past participle
- orchestrated
- -ing form
- orchestrating
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Through meticulously orchestrated captive breeding programs, these facilities actively safeguard vulnerable species whose natural habitats are imperiled by rampant deforestation and climate fluctuations.
Dickens was the undisputed master of this episodic format, orchestrating intricate plots that kept a burgeoning middle-class readership perpetually enthralled.
Between the spring of eighteen hundred and four and the autumn of eighteen hundred and six, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark orchestrated a monumental journey.
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