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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
The Wright brothers launched their airplane factory at a time when Dayton had established itself as one of the world's most innovative cities, according to Lockhart, who noted that Dayton was the home of several world-changing inventions at the time.
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Randy Tucker,
USA Today,
15 June 2026
Creativity gives rise to technological progress and transformative inventions, which provide a new driving force for the economy and a focal point for investors.
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John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
Ahren Hoffman, director of the Young Inventor Challenge, called it an opportunity for kids between the ages of 6 to 18 to submit their original, unique toy and game inventions.
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Felicity Abbott,
CBS News,
15 June 2026
No one knows better than founder Max Büsser that timepieces are a sort of modern fantasy, a way of romanticizing the mechanical inventions of yesteryear.
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Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
12 June 2026
As for Greiner, she became known in the business world after patenting a plastic jewelry organizer, the first of many inventions in her portfolio that would be wildly successful.
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Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
11 June 2026
These new inventions made workers more productive and improved the lives of everyone.
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Jessica Melugin,
Mercury News,
10 June 2026
With telegraph machines and telephones from the 1800s, inventions from Thomas Edison’s company, 20th-century TVs and computers and more, the museum covers how technology in media evolved.
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Zuri Primos
june 3,
Kansas City Star,
3 June 2026
The Lumen cocktail bar, meanwhile, has an exceptional cocktail menu that runs the gamut from beloved Italian classics to off-the-wall inventions.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
Randy Tucker,
USA Today,
15 June 2026
Creativity gives rise to technological progress and transformative inventions, which provide a new driving force for the economy and a focal point for investors.
—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
Ahren Hoffman, director of the Young Inventor Challenge, called it an opportunity for kids between the ages of 6 to 18 to submit their original, unique toy and game inventions.
—
Felicity Abbott,
CBS News,
15 June 2026
No one knows better than founder Max Büsser that timepieces are a sort of modern fantasy, a way of romanticizing the mechanical inventions of yesteryear.
—
Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
12 June 2026
As for Greiner, she became known in the business world after patenting a plastic jewelry organizer, the first of many inventions in her portfolio that would be wildly successful.
—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
11 June 2026
These new inventions made workers more productive and improved the lives of everyone.
—
Jessica Melugin,
Mercury News,
10 June 2026
With telegraph machines and telephones from the 1800s, inventions from Thomas Edison’s company, 20th-century TVs and computers and more, the museum covers how technology in media evolved.
—
Zuri Primos
june 3,
Kansas City Star,
3 June 2026
The Lumen cocktail bar, meanwhile, has an exceptional cocktail menu that runs the gamut from beloved Italian classics to off-the-wall inventions.
—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inventions
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On top of advances in chips and AI algorithms, a range of innovations in system-level orchestration—for instance, dynamic model routing and edge-first execution—will play an important role in further driving down AI’s energy needs.
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Material World is a weekly roundup of innovations and ideas that are reshaping the materials sector.
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Invasion fictions tended to spring up in response to each new form of invasion panic.
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The program also happens to be in line with one of the president’s convenient rhetorical fictions.
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Circe and Calypso, for instance, are fantasies of pleasure and captivity, projections of men’s fear of losing control; Odysseus’ abandonment of them is part of his return to command.
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Iraq was losing the war that would create the state of Israel, a humiliation that challenged fantasies of Arab unity and conquest.
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Daily tales of war and violence around the world made one want to clench one’s fists, grit one’s teeth, and to shout out in a paean of outraged hysteria.
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Hopefully, these three will be among the final cautionary tales of poor draft decisions.
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Along the way, the system will also share local stories tied to each place.
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This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight.
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The novel has a freewheeling spirit that recalls Italo Calvino’s space fables in Cosmicomics.
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The collection spans centuries of storytelling in multiple genres, from migratory fairytales with kings and princesses to legends of ghosts and the Devil to fables with talking animals.
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While some were obvious fabrications, meant to aggrandize the narrator by his association with Tsietsi, most seemed true.
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Lace and embroidered fabrications give a naked dress a light layer of romance without weighing the look down.
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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.
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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.
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