science up

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science up (third-person singular simple present sciences up, present participle sciencing up, simple past and past participle scienced up)

  1. (informal, transitive) To develop or create in a scientific way
    • 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian[1]:
      That is the calibre of person who, in the age of express delivery, is working on sciencing-up the plain cardboard box.