as in to devise
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination
parents who were always trumping up little projects for their children to do around the house
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Whelan had been held for more than five years by Russian authorities on what his family and the U.S. government insisted were trumped up charges of espionage.
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Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2024
He was arrested on trumped up charges and lost everything.
—Maria L. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
Weiss contends gun charges not 'trumped up' because of Trump
The gun charges represent just one of many legal battles Hunter Biden faces.
—USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2024
Formerly Baathist party soldiers and other secular rebels have grown out their beards and trumped up their Islamist bona fides on YouTube to outbid their rebel peers.
—Lionel Beehner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2015
The opposition saw its chief leaders sidelined on criminal charges that their supporters claimed were trumped up.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
Some students and professors rushed to the defense of the student groups, arguing that the allegations against them were trumped up or that the university was, at best, enforcing its rules selectively.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2023
Navalny is serving sentences totaling 30 years on charges including extremism that are widely viewed as trumped up for political retribution.
—Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
Trevor Reed, another former Marine who was held prisoner for nearly three years on charges the U.S. said were trumped up, was also freed last year in an exchange for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot convicted on drug smuggling charges.
—Caroline Guthrie, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2023
Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2024
He was arrested on trumped up charges and lost everything.
—Maria L. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
Weiss contends gun charges not 'trumped up' because of Trump
The gun charges represent just one of many legal battles Hunter Biden faces.
—USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2024
Formerly Baathist party soldiers and other secular rebels have grown out their beards and trumped up their Islamist bona fides on YouTube to outbid their rebel peers.
—Lionel Beehner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2015
The opposition saw its chief leaders sidelined on criminal charges that their supporters claimed were trumped up.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
Some students and professors rushed to the defense of the student groups, arguing that the allegations against them were trumped up or that the university was, at best, enforcing its rules selectively.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2023
Navalny is serving sentences totaling 30 years on charges including extremism that are widely viewed as trumped up for political retribution.
—Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
Trevor Reed, another former Marine who was held prisoner for nearly three years on charges the U.S. said were trumped up, was also freed last year in an exchange for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot convicted on drug smuggling charges.
—Caroline Guthrie, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2023
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