1
as in to produce
to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials
the company manufactures appliances and electronics
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2
as in to devise
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination
he manufactured some story about how his car broke down and he was unable to call home and let anyone know that he would be late
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as in production
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Recent Examples of manufacture
Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Environmental activists have sought to block the expansion of Tesla’s Gigafactory in Berlin, manufacturing electric cars and battery cells.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 6 Jan. 2025
Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 27 Nov. 2024
However, there is some good news as Nebraska legalized medical marijuana as well as its manufacture and sale.
—Iris Dorbian, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
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The Inflation Reduction Act’s provisions spurred hundreds of billions in new manufacturing investments across the country, passing nearly $600 in total private investment since it was passed in 2022.
—Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Environmental activists have sought to block the expansion of Tesla’s Gigafactory in Berlin, manufacturing electric cars and battery cells.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 6 Jan. 2025
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Moreover, the town’s quaint coziness clashes with the advent of industrialism, and the widespread manufacture of weapons of war.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 27 Nov. 2024
However, there is some good news as Nebraska legalized medical marijuana as well as its manufacture and sale.
—Iris Dorbian, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
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Budgets for big releases are ballooning out of control with games like Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (2020) costing up to $700 million to produce.Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2025
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She’s been invited to sit front row at Saint Laurent, which produced the movie and dressed her for several of her events.Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2025
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Plans are devised to miss an hour of work to catch the second half of an unexpectedly tight game between a ranked power conference team and a frisky mid-major.Mark Schindler, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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The grant money will initially go to the state of North Carolina, and the governor’s office will devise a plan for how to distribute it, HUD spokesperson Zachary Nosanchuk said.Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 8 Jan. 2025
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Credit Di Giuseppe, but isn’t that precisely the sort of role that Heinen was brought in to fill? While Heinen’s offensive production has been steady enough for a middle-six contributor, his two-way impact hasn’t quite met expectations.Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
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The next 10 production slots were instantly filled.Robb Report Staff, Robb Report, 6 Jan. 2025
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Effect of Technology on Hunting Opportunity The context for Idaho’s HAT working group is that as technology makes hunters more effective at killing animals, hunting opportunity diminishes.Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 10 Jan. 2025
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Ash trickled down from a gray sky and the smell of smoke lingered in the air Thursday as Angelenos made phone calls to loved ones.Angela Yang, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2025
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Topanga Ranch Motel: Also owned by the state parks department, the Topanga Ranch Motel was constructed in 1929 by newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst.Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
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The project will be constructed in phases on 2,000 of the 3,100 available acres south and west of the airport runways originally made available for a solar farm.Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 9 Jan. 2025
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The lawsuit accuses the federal government of dumping PCBs from the Washington Navy Yard, hazardous chemicals from the Kenilworth Landfill and chemical waste from federal printing facilities into the Anacostia River.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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Similar services are also available at your local print shops or even at big-box stores such as Staples, which also provide high-quality poster and image printing.Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 10 Jan. 2025
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The flying balloon had only been invented a couple years before, by French brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2025
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As the political scientist Jeffrey Ding has shown, the dynamic U.S. system has consistently gained more from new technologies than even the countries that invented them.Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
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In what may well be a spy movie for actual adults, director Soderbergh and screenwriter David Koepp concoct a moody drama steeped in espionage, marital trust issues and, one hopes, prime opportunities for playing the pause, the side-eye and the steely glare along with the words.Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025
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Years later, both young women said under oath that police pressured them, using aggressive interrogation tactics that led them to concoct stories about Cox that were not true.Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Manufacture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manufacture. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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