invent
Example Sentences
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Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, but believed its main uses would be for office work, education and recording memories, not music.
“Early comments about how AI is the most profound technology ever invented seem to be more or less accurate,” said Louis Navellier, of Navellier Calculated Investing.
From Barron's
He’s been little more than an emcee for negotiations, but wants us to think he invented armistice.
From Salon
In “The Mighty Continent,” he condenses a grand historical narrative into a conversational and erudite survey of a civilization that “invented the modern world.”
Our universities educated Americans who directed the Manhattan Project, created a vaccine for polio and invented personal computing.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
