invent
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“We got into this game that we didn’t invent but was necessary to play,” Debby Soo, CEO of OpenTable, said of the financial incentives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
One promising strategy is not to invent a completely new antibiotic, but to help existing drugs work again.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
How did he come to invent such a strange spiritual system, and develop the nerve to sell it both to mainstream publishers and the academic establishment?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
In that vacuum, it makes sense that some Catholics have begun to invent their own beliefs.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026
In mathematics Pascal helped invent a whole new branch of the field: probability theory.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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"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
"Every new live-service game invents its own demise," van Dreunen said.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
What’s your role in “The Miniature Wife”? I play Lindy Littlejohn, whose spouse invents technology that shrinks fresh produce and, accidentally, me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
Even when he rewrites precedent and invents his own doctrines, his steps have been plotted years in advance.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025
Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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“I think he may have single-handedly invented a new way to do literary events. I don’t know what to call it ... a literary roast?,”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
In 1856 the British engineer Henry Bessemer invented a process for the mass-production of steel, and the material became cheap.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Microsoft and Google’s cloud businesses have grown faster than Amazon’s for some time, to the point where they pose a legitimate threat to AWS’s dominance of an industry it virtually invented two decades ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
The group also faces increased competition from copycats in supermarkets, as well as from rival Select, which claims to have invented the spritz in Venice in 1920.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
The credit default swap had just been invented by bankers at J.P.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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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
The Lydians are widely credited with inventing coinage, and their ruler, King Croesus, became legendary for his immense wealth.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026
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
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
Now, over here,” Mr. Wonka went on, skipping excitedly across the room to the opposite wall, “over here I am inventing a completely new line in toffees!”
From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
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