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vamp (up)

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Definition of vamp (up)

as in to devise

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination political spin doctors who can vamp up a justification for just about anything

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Davis’s Friday ruling means the government must now disclose who devised the fund’s structure, but the information will not necessarily be made available to the public.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026
Engineers devised a lower-thrust trajectory that saved BepiColombo's mission but delayed its Mercury arrival from December 2025 to November 2026.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2026

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The report also said there were indications that operations began in January at a uranium enrichment facility in Kangson, near the capital Pyongyang, within an annex that had been constructed in 2024.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026
Instead of constructing a large reactor facility above ground, the company’s model would shift much of the system underground.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026

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As is true of the best novels, the story emerges not as a scheme concocted by the author, but as an organic outcome of each character’s growth over the life of the book.

— Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Secrecy laws like Georgia’s shield the public from awareness of the growing costs of pharmacists concocting drugs and the doctors administering the injections.

— Max Blau, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of concoct

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