as in to devise
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination
trying to concoct an explanation for how the lamp got broken by itself
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Recent Examples of concoct
Police combed through social media and began releasing public alerts about her disappearance before the girl’s parents found her journal on Saturday, which showed a detailed plan to run away that had been concocted between the girl, Scruggs and Williamson.
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Katie Langford, Denver Post, 26 June 2025
The apartment-sized bathroom, with a centerpiece tub, has custom Grown Alchemist products for both morning and night, each concocted with a special formula using herbs from the High Line, which sits steps away.
—Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2025
That’s when Anthony concocted the idea for the iniative.
—Abigail Adams, People.com, 8 June 2025
For its 86th summer season, Del Mar has concocted a schedule filled with food-centric festivities, sips, handicapping and tips, blended in with world-class thoroughbred racing.
—Kelley Carlson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2025
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Katie Langford, Denver Post, 26 June 2025
The apartment-sized bathroom, with a centerpiece tub, has custom Grown Alchemist products for both morning and night, each concocted with a special formula using herbs from the High Line, which sits steps away.
—Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2025
That’s when Anthony concocted the idea for the iniative.
—Abigail Adams, People.com, 8 June 2025
For its 86th summer season, Del Mar has concocted a schedule filled with food-centric festivities, sips, handicapping and tips, blended in with world-class thoroughbred racing.
—Kelley Carlson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concoct
Verb
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As the Panthers’ general manager from 2013 to just before the 2017 season began, Gettleman devised the rosters that pushed Carolina to four playoff berths in five years.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
17 July 2025
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Participants identify challenges in their communities and devise local, innovative solutions to address them.—
Cynthia Tully,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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Flip invented the Wheezer Scale for gauging the difficulty of hiking up hills.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 July 2025
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Computer researchers invented the technique in the 1990s to screen bots from entering information into websites, originally using images with letters and numbers written in wiggly fonts, often obscured with lines or noise to foil computer vision algorithms.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 July 2025
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The decision to construct an entire studio for the prequel speaks to the scale of ambition driving this project.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
21 July 2025
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As the fireline is constructed, inspected or reinforced, mappers record those details to adjust the containment percentage.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
21 July 2025
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“Concoct.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concoct. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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