invented
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The band's founding member and main songwriter, Justin Currie, explained in 2010 that the band's name "was invented to be meaningless – basically a corruption of the Greek name 'Dimitri'."
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Paramount is likely to say that such a market is too narrow and was invented for the purposes of the lawsuit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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
One invented the telegraph, another created the first revolver, still a third was the father of the American sewing machine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 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
