inventing

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Throughout its history, Apple has done more innovating than inventing, and that’s the case here: The concept of conversational AI isn’t new—but this implementation certainly will be.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

She found herself inventing excuses to try to keep him home at night.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Lee also pointed to a Wednesday post on X from Bollinger Capital Management president and founder John Bollinger, best known for inventing the Bollinger Bands technical tools.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

A French academic is under investigation for inventing a Nobel-style prize for philology in order that he could then go on to win it.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

But they directed their ingenuity toward technological problems appropriate to their situations: the problems of surviving without any imported items in the New Guinea jungle, rather than the problem of inventing phonographs.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond