as in to devise
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination
they invented an explanation for the broken vase that would satisfy their grandmother
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Recent Examples of invent
There’s also the Chrystanthemum brooch, which features the mystery setting technique, invented in 1933 and patented in 1937.
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Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
Flip invented the Wheezer Scale for gauging the difficulty of hiking up hills.
—Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2025
Earlier that year, Rune Elmqvist had invented this particular pacemaker, designed to be implanted in a subcutaneous pouch in a patient suffering a cardiac disease.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2025
Through interviews and archival footage, Rebel Superstar shows how Taylor mastered the art of turning public scandal into staying power and, in the process, helped invent the modern celebrity playbook.
—Adisa Hargett-Robinson, The Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2025
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Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
Flip invented the Wheezer Scale for gauging the difficulty of hiking up hills.
—Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2025
Earlier that year, Rune Elmqvist had invented this particular pacemaker, designed to be implanted in a subcutaneous pouch in a patient suffering a cardiac disease.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2025
Through interviews and archival footage, Rebel Superstar shows how Taylor mastered the art of turning public scandal into staying power and, in the process, helped invent the modern celebrity playbook.
—Adisa Hargett-Robinson, The Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for invent
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The most visible plans are those devised by the same international custodians who have engineered postwar order elsewhere in the Middle East.—
Mohammed R. Mhawish,
New Yorker,
14 Oct. 2025
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To that end, the Charlotte Symphony commissioned Grammy-winning composer Mason Bates to devise a brief musical signature called a sonic logo for the orchestra.—
Adam Bell,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Oct. 2025
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One of the smartest things the subgroup of three commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick did in concocting a 12-team CFP format was to grant automatic playoff berths to the top six conference champions (later five after the Pac-12’s collapse).—
Chris Vannini,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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Maybe the purposefully ambiguous coda was concocted to prove some sort of Rashomon-style truth-is-subjective point.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
9 Oct. 2025
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SpaceX’s luck appears to be turning, as the company notched a second straight successful test flight of the Starship launch system — the most powerful rocket ever constructed — on Monday evening.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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Exercises focused on how to find and purify water, fish and hunt for animals, forage for edible plants, find dry wood to build a fire and construct palm leaf-sapling lean-to shelters.—
Kit Bernardi,
USA Today,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Invent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invent. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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