invented

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But he had invented a sport and would do whatever it took to play it.

From BBC • Jul. 7, 2026

The centerpiece of the overhaul is the L1, L’Acoustics’ new flagship line array system — the first major architectural rethinking of the format since the company invented the modern line source array in 1993.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2026

Like a lot of the recipes I come back to most, this one wasn’t invented so much as accumulated.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2026

It all traces back to an over-30-year-old legal brief from Big Tobacco: They created the modern liability shield playbook and invented the legal interpretation that its successors are now trying to complete.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2026

The thing’s enormous, eight feet high and wide, with webs of wires and rows of rotating rotors—like something the Son of Frankenstein might have invented, if he’d been a brilliant code breaker.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin