invent

Example Sentences

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Through invented details of clothing, Ms. Ng points out, Gainsborough could “subvert the rigid rules of British social class,” elevating sitters into gentility.

From The Wall Street Journal

AI programmes have vastly simplified tasks in the workplace but generative AI systems are known for their ability to "hallucinate" and assert falsehoods as fact, even sometimes inventing sources for the inaccurate information.

From BBC

“It’s the one about failing ten thousand times when he tried to invent the light bulb, right? Is that how long you think it’s going to take me to pass the Lincoln assassination?”

From Literature

Back in the 1990s, chemists invented a weird substance called a metal-organic framework.

From The Wall Street Journal

As Elisha sourced a crew and supplies for his upcoming Arctic expedition, “examining recruits, inventing cooking stoves, pricing rounds of beef,” he was often on the road.

From Literature