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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In deciding how to organize roughly 2,000 works of art across 110,000 square feet of exhibition space, LACMA devised a conceptual schema that isn’t apparent in the galleries themselves.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2026 -
Libraries are among the most democratic institutions a civilized society has ever devised.—
James Porter,
Mercury News,
17 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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From that try the shrimps à Brás, a twist on a popular codfish dish, invented in the 19th century which includes matchstick potatoes, olives, parsley, and eggs or the deeply satisfying oxtail croquettes.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
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The new method, called ShadeCut, was invented by a research team at Freiburg’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), one of the largest solar energy research institutes in the world.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
23 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 26 Apr. 2026.
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