as in invention
something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination
the first submarine must have seemed like a wild concoction at the time
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Recent Examples of concoction
Julianne Moore wore a Karl Lagerfeld concoction to accept the Oscar for her role in Still Alice.
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José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 18 Mar. 2026
The golf phenom was referring to Hailey Bieber’s $21 strawberry concoction that’s packed with collagen and sea moss to make your skin glow.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
The Ichikawas are using their years climbing mountains and craggy cliffs all over the world to guide their signature concoctions.
—Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 9 Mar. 2026
The cocktails lean toward the tropics, with painkillers, frozen piña coladas, and creative rum concoctions like the High Tai’d, a creamy blend of rum, pistachio, and yuzu curaçao.
—Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2026
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José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 18 Mar. 2026
The golf phenom was referring to Hailey Bieber’s $21 strawberry concoction that’s packed with collagen and sea moss to make your skin glow.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
The Ichikawas are using their years climbing mountains and craggy cliffs all over the world to guide their signature concoctions.
—Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 9 Mar. 2026
The cocktails lean toward the tropics, with painkillers, frozen piña coladas, and creative rum concoctions like the High Tai’d, a creamy blend of rum, pistachio, and yuzu curaçao.
—Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concoction
Noun
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Even if younger postmodern artists who use the same materials as Elaine Reichek—cloth, thread—to make work that involves stitching and the like don’t know it, the eighty-two-year-old artist is the mother of their invention.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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As the story goes, fresh off university and broke in 1996, Ralph Anderl, alongside friends Philipp Haffmans and Harald Gottschling, masterminded the screwless invention, decided to apply it to stainless-steel eyewear and wore some prototype pairs to a gallery event in Berlin.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Advances in fabrication techniques and growing environmental awareness will likely accelerate their transition from laboratory innovation to commercial application.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Mar. 2026
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Scientific breakthroughs aren’t keeping up with our collective imagination and the availability of capital to fund new innovation.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
20 Mar. 2026
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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The challenge of weather-app creation lies both in the improbability of accurately predicting the weather and in the difficulty of designing something that works for any user, anywhere.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
25 Mar. 2026
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This achievement can only be the product of an obsessive, near-philosophical approach to the sandwich as a composition, to the gestalt of the bite.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
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The company develops and makes products for civilian and military use, such as drone technologies used by Ukraine's armed forces in the fight against the Russian invasion.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
22 Mar. 2026
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“Concoction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concoction. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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