concoct
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Coke has been involved in crafting McDonald’s new dirty soda beverages, using Sprite and syrups to help concoct the brightly colored drinks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
It’s almost possible to concoct a silver lining from this dreadful situation, but only by focusing on short-term electoral politics in the most bloodless and instrumental fashion.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026
Rather, he’s using a shoestring budget to concoct left-of-center sights that feel like a peek into a specific Los Angeles netherworld.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026
We live and breathe stories: We concoct them; we relate them; we react to them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
I reckoned we were going home where she would concoct a brew to eliminate the pain and maybe give me new teeth too.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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With each manicured frame and deceptively poignant observation on the impossibility of living normally in modern life, Kramer concocts an original, wonderfully empathetic study of the desire to play spectator to a world on fire.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026
In “Bel Canto,” Patchett concocts an almost fantastical scenario: What would happen if in the course of a months-long hostage crisis, the militants and civilians broke bread and sought comfort in each other?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
Each weekday, your host, Ray Hamel, concocts a challenging set of unique questions on a specific topic.
From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2023
Multicellular living matter concocts its own schemes, which means cells won't necessarily stay in the same place or state.
From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023
Madame Manec’s energy, Marie-Laure is learning, is extraordinary; she burgeons, shoots off stalks, wakes early, works late, concocts bisques without a drop of cream, loaves with less than a cup of flour.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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It said it was "concocted well after the event in an attempt to obscure and conceal the realities of the disguised funding scheme".
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
But John believes all of it to be an elaborate publicity stunt concocted by Arcane — or, at least, that’s what he tells himself.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
The original Monticello was a thoroughly conventional house, a gentleman-amateur’s effort diligently concocted out of the standard pattern-books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
The siblings concocted complex lineages and histories for their countries, writing Angrian and Gondalian tales and verse in tiny homemade books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
I was concerned with what I'd actually done, and he with the lie I'd concocted to cover it.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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Baldoni denied wrongdoing and accused Lively of concocting false allegations as part of an effort to wrest creative control of the film.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
He has gone so far as giving these agents names and concocting personal back stories for them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
Williams, having supposedly brought disgrace on Harlequins by independently concocting the blood capsule plan, sought advice from the Rugby Players' Association.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025
It’s a lot of pressure, concocting a flawless ending.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024
And having done so, might she obscure the fact by concocting a slight, barely clever fiction and satisfy her vanity by sending it off to a magazine?
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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