as in fictitious
not real and existing only in the imagination
a daydreamer who lives mostly in her invented magic kingdom
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as in devised
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination
they invented an explanation for the broken vase that would satisfy their grandmother
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Recent Examples of invented
Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
California invented modern wellness.
—Markos Kounalakis, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
The sport was invented for kids in 1965, but came on gangbusters recently as old farts got excited and then young farts and middle-age farts joined in.
—Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2026
Ken Kocienda, who spent 15 years at Apple and invented keyboard autocorrect for the original iPhone, left in 2017 and joined AI hardware startup Humane a few years later.
—Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2026
Byatt layers in invented history and poetry, creating a wholly original and spellbinding novel.
—Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
Consider, for instance, the Pomodoro technique, invented by a university student in the 1980s who was trying to come up with a strategy to work more efficiently.
—Laura E. Knouse, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
Gemini 3 Pro invented elaborate technical justifications for marking incorrect answers as correct, reasoning that doing so would bring the peer’s score above the shutdown threshold.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
From their breakthrough comedy albums to their wildly successful movies, these two invented stoner comedy.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026
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That’s because in 101-level art history courses, Duchamp is still taught as the man who invented the readymade, seizing objects that were already out there in the world—urinals and bottle racks, shovels and bicycle wheels—and re-presenting them as sculptures of his own.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
California invented modern wellness.
—Markos Kounalakis, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
The sport was invented for kids in 1965, but came on gangbusters recently as old farts got excited and then young farts and middle-age farts joined in.
—Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2026
Ken Kocienda, who spent 15 years at Apple and invented keyboard autocorrect for the original iPhone, left in 2017 and joined AI hardware startup Humane a few years later.
—Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2026
Byatt layers in invented history and poetry, creating a wholly original and spellbinding novel.
—Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
Consider, for instance, the Pomodoro technique, invented by a university student in the 1980s who was trying to come up with a strategy to work more efficiently.
—Laura E. Knouse, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
Gemini 3 Pro invented elaborate technical justifications for marking incorrect answers as correct, reasoning that doing so would bring the peer’s score above the shutdown threshold.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
From their breakthrough comedy albums to their wildly successful movies, these two invented stoner comedy.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invented
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Investigators allege Gonzalez wrote checks to herself from HOA accounts over an extended period and concealed the thefts by creating fictitious invoices and false ledger entries.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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One requires election records to be maintained for 22 months, while the other prohibits procuring, casting or tabulating false, fictitious or fraudulent ballots.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2026
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Islam kissed the ethnically and religiously diverse Arab lands and devised an inclusive and innovative formula.—
Doris Bittar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Apr. 2026
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This byzantine corporate structure apparently did not exist until Altman devised it.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Meanwhile, Pierce Brosnan — who played the fictional agent with a license to kill in four films in the '90s — is open-minded about reprising his role.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
10 Apr. 2026
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In the episode, detectives Vincent Riley (Reid Scott) and Theo Walker (David Ajala) chase the shooters through the Brooklyn Museum, a stand-in for the show’s fictional Atlas Museum of Art.—
Leigh Anne Miller,
ARTnews.com,
10 Apr. 2026
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After moving his family from Michigan to South Texas in 1905, John Anderson Adams concocted the popular vanilla flavoring product.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
9 Apr. 2026
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Time to grow up and reject belief systems concocted before the invention of clocks and toilet paper.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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And so the super, super devoted fans really do know each other and really are jockeying with each other for position in a way that feels both real and imaginary.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Apr. 2026
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No borders and a thin blue line Viewing the Earth from space, White highlights, drives home that the borders that mark our maps are largely imaginary.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 2026
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It’s all constructed in a way that makes the tone feel somewhat sad, informed by some of the missions of these characters.—
David John Chávez,
Mercury News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Jackson County could soon take steps aimed to ensure new data centers are not constructed in unincorporated areas of the county, at least temporarily.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Some version of this happens in all your books—an imagined future opens up new possibilities in the present.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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The title track is simply a recitation of imagined Spotify playlists, and once the joke lands we’re not left with much.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
25 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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But the most important sighting of the mythical Stravinskian fowl might be the revival of Dance Theatre of Harlem’s 1982 version, migrating back to New York for the first time in more than twenty years.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
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The poem tells the story of the seduction of a sixteen-year-old girl by the watermonster, a mythical figure, weaving together themes of place, identity, trauma, and transformation.—
Patrick Dundon,
JSTOR Daily,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Invented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invented. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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