as in to devise
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination
she's a master at excogitating reasons not to do her assigned work
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New uses are continually being devised.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026 -
Physicians on Earth were able to devise a treatment for the astronaut to implement in space to address the issue and complete the mission's full duration.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
15 Jan. 2026
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But for his first contribution to the network in 2026, The Beauty, he and co-creator Matthew Hodgson have concocted a genre-hopping oddity that sounds even less likely to work.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
21 Jan. 2026
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Both activities can be fairly ordinary hobbies—games of imagination not so different from crushing on a pop star or concocting stories about a film protagonist.—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
17 Jan. 2026
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The company is capitalizing on its extensive power portfolio and land assets in Texas to construct large-scale data centers aimed at artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC).—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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The historic waterfront stretch is constructed from 19th-century cobblestones and chock-full of cute restaurants, bars, galleries, and shops, all offering spectacular views of the Savannah River and docking cargo ships.—
Cailey Rizzo,
Travel + Leisure,
21 Jan. 2026
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In the face of such widespread public revulsion, the administration and its enablers have been trying to invent a terrorist threat to justify their increasingly unpopular siege of Minneapolis.—
Michelle Goldberg,
Mercury News,
20 Jan. 2026
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Pat's King of Steaks has been open since 1930 at the intersection of South 9th and Wharton streets at Passyunk Avenue and claims to have invented the steak sandwich.—
Tom Ignudo,
CBS News,
20 Jan. 2026
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“Excogitate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excogitate. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.
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