contriving

present participle of contrive
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for contriving
Verb
  • One of the biggest difficulties in devising laws on the topic of AI for mental health involves defining what constitutes AI for mental health.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Bob-Waksberg and his collaborators retain their impressive gift for devising ludicrous comic set pieces to go alongside the heavier material.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The Kremlin rejected the allegation, stressing that Putin was not plotting against Washington.
    Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The case became even more horrifying when he was accused of plotting to silence a key witness.
    Doc Louallen, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • On Tinder alone, men dominate the active user base, which gives women more choice and negotiating power.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Brown as the crafty Pauline is the true scene stealer, negotiating terms of terror herself.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Not only is the kitchen fully on display but a separate alcove is given over to his highly technical lab, a play space dedicated to fermentation, aging, preserving and otherwise concocting.
    Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • That isn't stopping Andy Bailey of Bleacher Report from concocting a massive trade proposal that would send the nine-time All-Star to the New York Knicks.
    Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Around the country, arranging for housing is a relatively new and growing challenge for such PACE groups, which are funded through Medicaid and Medicare.
    Felice J. Freyer, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
  • One study — admittedly small and enabled by the hack of affair-arranging app Ashley Madison in 2015 — found that companies whose CEOs or CFOs were paying users of the site were twice as likely to have had a financial misstatement or involvement in a securities class action.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This approach requires constructing a clear, detailed vision of what the organization could look like once AI is embedded into its operating model.
    Peter Bendor-Samuel, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The research team attempted to show the practical application of their idea by constructing a green wall made of 56 plants that produced enough light to see text, images and a person located up to 10 centimeters (four inches) away, according to the study.
    Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Was Prater manipulating evidence?
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • One was based on hard-coding logical rules for categorizing inputs into symbols and then for manipulating those symbols to arrive at outputs.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Yet, bizarrely, the TV show undercuts this angle by inventing a serial killer nurse from whole cloth, a move that shifts the blame away from systemic forces and toward a motiveless scoundrel.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Despite his resistance to participating in yet another documentary—and the show’s underuse of him, in what is either a callback to The Office or a failure to learn from its mistakes—Oscar ends up inventing number games.
    Judy Berman, Time, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Contriving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contriving. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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