contrivance
Example Sentences
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Someone makes a jokey reference to the cartoon contrivance of “Scooby-Doo,” and the comparison is brutally apt.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
Most market meltdowns have been triggered by some unique new financial contrivance.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2025
Yet for all the contrivance, this match-up comes draped in the language of legacy.
From BBC • Sep. 12, 2025
As the prosecution described it, the case that faces a man who made his Hollywood name with the artificial drama of “The Apprentice” needs no contrivance.
From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2024
He is average-sized and prematurely gray, but by some contrivance of carriage and posture, he makes the men who stand before him feel smaller.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
