as in devises
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 invents
Once concentration becomes too high, the ingenuity of entrepreneurs and developers invents a new approach to reverse it.
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Christian Catalini, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Well, after his sleep is disrupted by a cat scratching outside his apartment, Charlie invents the perfect solution.
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Imagine that a country invents AGI before any other country.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Until someone invents smell-o-vision, fragrance ads must rely on inventive ways to woo consumers through sight and sound.
—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 4 Oct. 2024
Christian Catalini, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Well, after his sleep is disrupted by a cat scratching outside his apartment, Charlie invents the perfect solution.
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Imagine that a country invents AGI before any other country.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Until someone invents smell-o-vision, fragrance ads must rely on inventive ways to woo consumers through sight and sound.
—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 4 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invents
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No one wants to give up on Erica, especially Uhura, who devises a plan to send another shuttle through the wormhole to rescue Erica.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2025
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Mary’s enterprising sister Edith (Laura Carmichael) devises a plan to invite Coward, in whose show their friend Guy Dexter (Dominic West), now secretly in a relationship with their former servant Thomas (Robert James-Collier), is appearing.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Holland constructs a fragmented, kaleidoscopic portrait that blends real episodes with Kafka’s fiction and his strange afterlife as both cultural prophet and commercial brand.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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To facilitate such a mix, Alameddine constructs The True True Story of Raja the Gullible like an accordion, bracketing it with two short chapters set in 2023 and using the space between them to take his narrator back and forth in time.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Invents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invents. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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