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invent
verb as in create, think up
Strongest matches
bear, come up with, conceive, design, devise, discover, dream up, envision, fashion, find, forge, formulate, initiate, originate, produce
Strong matches
ad-lib, author, coin, compose, contrive, execute, fake, form, frame, hatch, imagine, improve, improvise, inaugurate, jam, make, mint, plan, project, wing
Weak matches
bring into being, come upon, cook up, knock off, make up, off-the-cuff, toss off, turn out
verb as in fabricate
Strong matches
equivocate, fake, falsify, feign, fib, lie, misrepresent, misstate, pretend, prevaricate, simulate, vamp
Weak matches
conjure up, create out of thin air, make believe, make up, tell a white lie, tell untruth, think up, trump up
Example Sentences
Food researchers from the University of Copenhagen have now invented a "disguise" that solves the problem of the dry and gritty mouth feel of fibers.
“It was a simple idea of, ‘What if Wallace invents a smart gnome, a robot gnome, to help Gromit in the garden, and things inevitably go wrong?’
One such technology was invented at Penn State and is currently garnering support from the agricultural technology sector to address the problem at scale.
My third-grade teacher tried a few strategies, including sending me on errands invented just to get me out of the classroom.
Secondly, throw into the mix a political rule first invented by The Economist magazine: “Never pick a fight with a profession that appears in a children’s book.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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