as in inventors
one who creates or introduces something new
a contriver of yet another piece of exercise equipment guaranteed to tighten up your abs
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Anderson never married and, like the female inventors who came before and after her, faced different constraints to entrepreneurship than men, such as prohibitions on owning property and opening bank accounts.—
Shoshi Parks,
Popular Science,
4 Mar. 2026 -
Buscemi noted that inventors like the Wright Brothers would sew fabric patterns tailored to wooden planes.—
Mary Wenthur,
Footwear News,
24 Feb. 2026
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Eight months ago, production designers Misty Buckley and Alana Billingsley began proposing new ideas for the 2026 Academy Awards stage.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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Lucy Maguire is Features Director at Vogue Business, writing and commissioning features across all verticals, with a focus on fashion industry moves, international fashion weeks, trends and consumer behaviour, alongside interviews with key designers, founders and executives.—
Lucy Maguire,
Vogue,
12 Mar. 2026
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Residents did have questions about the site plan, but face-to-face with the developers — many of them for the first time — the meeting often became tense and emotional.—
Emily Holshouser,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
12 Mar. 2026
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To protect these fragile machines, developers are supposed to invest in expensive battery storage or grid backups, ultimately driving up production costs and stalling the transition to affordable green fuel.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Mar. 2026
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The art in this collection is a stunning reproduction of Miyazaki’s illustrations, including concept sketches, animation stills and interviews with the creators.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
9 Mar. 2026
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Gold House is the leading cultural ecosystem, uniting the Asian Pacific and multicultural communities around common causes, investing capital and resources into independent creators and companies, and showing the world how impactful the Asian Pacific community can be in every industry and endeavor.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Contrivers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contrivers. Accessed 16 Mar. 2026.
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