concocted
Example Sentences
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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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Uefa insists that the plan was concocted without the knowledge of them or other key stakeholders in football, and that it had been long in development.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
No surprise, the panel agreed with him and concocted pretexts to kill the treatment—for instance, the staff opined that maybe biopsies had zapped the tumors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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
But one morning she announced that she would wait no more, and the seeds went into the ground that day, followed by biweekly applications of the thick black fertilizer she concocted in the evenings.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
