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The Scots thinker did not invent many of the economic concepts in his most influential book.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The blur outside becomes enveloping and unfathomable; the universe inside the car evolves as the friends invent tension-defusing rituals to keep from screaming at one another.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Another clear argument against divine design is the recurrent laryngeal nerve, which takes a course that simply makes no sense to invent.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

“An officer could simply invent an accusation of criminality, leaving the green-card holder trapped in a bureaucratic twilight zone for years before they have a chance to rebut the accusation at a hearing,” Mark writes.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

If anyone questioned me, I wouldn’t be Ella; I’d invent a new name.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

This is important, given that he sometimes invents facts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Frankie invents a new nonsensical insult, calling Molly’s boyfriend Josh “such a customer.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

"Our work is a prime example of how evolution seldom invents things from scratch," says Daniel Kronauer, head of the Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior at Rockefeller.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

In 2052, a celebrated neuroscientist invents an affordable panacea for suffering that’s soon embraced by the entire human race.

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2025

“And—Oh! I know!—it’ll help if anyone ever invents a time machine,” Jeremy Evers wisecracked.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

In a nation that invented the likes of the frozen TV dinner, Childers is winding back the clock with technology that would be recognizable to farmers two millenia ago.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

His 500-year history argues that America neither invented the dollar nor has ever fully controlled it.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

He said that between July 2020 and October 2021, Gibson used false names, had invented business opportunities, and had used fake bank statements to show apparent substantial wealth to persuade them to hand money over.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

That you don’t want to be accepting fancy pens or, like, gorgeous gold earrings or an airplane, which wasn’t invented yet.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

Father, Toos, and I worked on “stalling techniques,” which we would use if the Gestapo came through the shop door; Betsie invented a similar strategy for the side door.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

"We are too often good at inventing technologies but too slow at turning them into global companies," said EU lawmaker Axel Voss, who has pushed for Europe's technological sovereignty.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

Because the more Seemiller studies Gen Z, the more she finds a generation responding rationally to the world it inherited — not inventing entirely new values out of thin air.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

He’s made a movie about Odysseus’ remorse for inventing the Trojan horse without a crucial scene: the moment he invents it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Rather than inventing caregiving from nothing, evolution may have expanded feeding behavior so that animals became motivated to provide nourishment to their offspring as well as themselves.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

In her lighted corner, pillows propped behind her, Laura sat up inventing.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez