invention
Example Sentences
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What began as an idea when one person got rained on became a simple and brilliant invention that would reach billions of people.
Good information remained hard to come by, right up to the invention of the internet—as anyone who remembers card catalogs can tell you.
She also worked in Hollywood in the 1960s, starring in The Pink Panther, where co-star David Niven paid her the best compliment she said she ever received: "Claudia, along with spaghetti, you're Italy's greatest invention."
From BBC
It’s a reminder that for all the radical invention visible in these sculptures, tradition is never far off.
But the fact remains: that Elizabeth Lane, the one America invites into its kitchens every month, is an invention.
From Salon
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