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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The most visible plans are those devised by the same international custodians who have engineered postwar order elsewhere in the Middle East.—
Mohammed R. Mhawish,
New Yorker,
14 Oct. 2025 -
That is, unless faster methods are devised than today’s chemical rockets.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Oct. 2025
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Dan concocted a farmhouse ale made with 1850s roots.—
Scott Dochterman,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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Maybe the purposefully ambiguous coda was concocted to prove some sort of Rashomon-style truth-is-subjective point.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
9 Oct. 2025
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The tall design is constructed of Italian suede and leather that’s been made water-resistant and jazzed up with buckles at the calf, to secure the comfy and warm shearling interior.—
Gretta Monahan,
Boston Herald,
16 Oct. 2025
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The building was constructed in 1910, and the apartment’s most recent tenant, who moved out in 2022, had lived there for forty years.—
Naaman Zhou,
New Yorker,
16 Oct. 2025
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Make your way down the slopes via velogemel, a snowbike that was invented and patented in the Jungfrau village of Grindelwald, or a sledge.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Oct. 2025
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It is said that Shakespeare himself invented more than 1,500 words.—
Louis J. Esterhazy,
Footwear News,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Vamped (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vamped%20%28up%29. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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