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as in innovations
something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination
his clever invention made people's lives easier
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as in fictions
something that is the product of the imagination
unsurprisingly, the story about being kidnapped by aliens was pure invention
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Recent Examples of inventions
His inventions are credited with saving the lives of millions of patients.
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Jeff Suess, Cincinnati Enquirer, 1 Feb. 2026
Then Atre and his friends would retire to their desks and go to work, focused, enthralled, relentless — ten, twelve, fourteen hours without pause — applying their energies to their various start-ups and inventions and business ideas.
—Scott Eden, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
Some changes will be a return to the past, and some will be new inventions.
—David Folkenflik, NPR, 30 Jan. 2026
The ranking places emphasis on the extent to which students achieve extraordinary success, for instance in patenting new inventions or rising to leadership roles in business.
—Raj Chetty, Time, 28 Jan. 2026
The walls of the restaurant will be covered with Crafty’s police mug shots, wanted posters and blueprints for his wacky fryer inventions.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 27 Jan. 2026
Mural artists in Philadelphia are using their talents to create beautiful works to commemorate historic places and inventions that were created in the city.
—Natasha Brown, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
In 2024, Diia landed on TIME magazine’s annual list of the world’s 200 best inventions.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
The push for green inventions comes from car companies, with Honda and auto component-maker Toshiba dominating those grant filings.
—Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 14 Jan. 2026
Jeff Suess, Cincinnati Enquirer, 1 Feb. 2026
Then Atre and his friends would retire to their desks and go to work, focused, enthralled, relentless — ten, twelve, fourteen hours without pause — applying their energies to their various start-ups and inventions and business ideas.
—Scott Eden, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
Some changes will be a return to the past, and some will be new inventions.
—David Folkenflik, NPR, 30 Jan. 2026
The ranking places emphasis on the extent to which students achieve extraordinary success, for instance in patenting new inventions or rising to leadership roles in business.
—Raj Chetty, Time, 28 Jan. 2026
The walls of the restaurant will be covered with Crafty’s police mug shots, wanted posters and blueprints for his wacky fryer inventions.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 27 Jan. 2026
Mural artists in Philadelphia are using their talents to create beautiful works to commemorate historic places and inventions that were created in the city.
—Natasha Brown, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
In 2024, Diia landed on TIME magazine’s annual list of the world’s 200 best inventions.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
The push for green inventions comes from car companies, with Honda and auto component-maker Toshiba dominating those grant filings.
—Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 14 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inventions
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Zhu highlighted innovations, such as the 2023 cross-border payment using digital RMB for precious metals.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Nashville residents should be prepared to potentially go without power for up to a week, said Brent Baker, executive vice president and chief operations and innovations officer of the Nashville Electric Service.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
26 Jan. 2026
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But these have always been legal fictions.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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The vast encyclopedic architecture of Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) or Mason & Dixon (1997) gives way here to a series of detective fictions each set in a distinct historical moment, each featuring a reluctant investigator sifting through the wreckage of cultural paranoia.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Dec. 2025
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Mauritanian survivor Koumba Diabaté enacts a beat-for-beat recreation of his Casino Royale fantasies in the Imperial Sky Villa of the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino.—
Kat Chen,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 Jan. 2026
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Now, with its fantasies of mass deportation, the British National Party was tapping into a four-hundred-year-old darkness.—
Hari Kunzru,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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These are human stories first and foremost, tales of tragedy, struggle over adversity, and bittersweet romance.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Jan. 2026
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His whimsical and precisely-staged tales play on the artifice of cinema as much as on the heightened emotions of their characters.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2026
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Michael Venos, a 46-year-old database administrator from Roxbury, New Jersey, has been collecting stories of Groundhog Day events and their weather predictions for about a decade.—
Mark Scolforo,
Fortune,
31 Jan. 2026
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Her goal is to improve the health of our community through easy-to-understand facts and real people's stories.—
Nicole Villalpando,
Austin American Statesman,
31 Jan. 2026
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Animated family films have been a staple of entertainment culture for nearly a century and offer a rich catalog of adventures, fables, fairy tales and dramas.—
David Faris,
TheWeek,
27 Jan. 2026
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Or throw it back with some age-old fables or fairy tales.—
Maya Silver,
Outside,
20 Jan. 2026
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Many of my immigrant friends remember similar fabrications about their relatives’ lives, ostensibly made up to protect them.—
Ruth Madievsky,
The Atlantic,
21 Jan. 2026
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These include the high-end fabrications Boglioli always relies on, which range from regenerated cashmere to lightweight flannels.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
20 Jan. 2026
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Heather Rose is the Australian author of seven novels including her latest novel The Museum of Modern Love published this month by Algonquin.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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Later novels routinely took inspiration from family members or former or current lovers; the 1980 novel that baffled Frank Kermode is a dreamlike fable about a man guiltily trying to have an extramarital affair.—
Christopher Tayler,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Inventions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inventions. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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