as in devised
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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Sometimes acronyms are purposely devised to reinforce a message.—
Clarissa Brincat,
Big Think,
29 Apr. 2026 -
In a statement released earlier this month, company officials claimed the engine was devised in response to rising costs in general aviation.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Apr. 2026
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Authorities believe Simko met one of the suspects at a cannabis festival in Ann Arbor, where the suspects reportedly concocted a plan to set up a fake business deal and steal what officials said was upwards of 50 pounds of marijuana.—
Joseph Buczek,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2026
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Composer Paul has concocted a pastiche of songs forever on the edge of our memories if not our tongues.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
20 Apr. 2026
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His silky ballads are uniformly thoughtful and well-constructed, but lack the pathos that would give them greater depth and dimension.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
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Roughly one in ten new US single-family homes is now constructed for renters, not homeowners.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
24 Apr. 2026
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There are a few new characters, like Ann Baxter (Varada Sethu), and some scenes were invented for the show.—
Emily Zemler,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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In 1993, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced that the World Wide Web, which was invented at CERN four years earlier by Tim Berners-Lee, was free for anyone to use, and released its source code to the public domain.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Vamped (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vamped%20%28up%29. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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