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invention
noun as in creation, creativeness
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No, the tools used are just old fashioned, and the images produced are drawings, hardly a new invention.
The basic premise that Christians should expect to suffer and be persecuted is not an invention of Rev. Sproul.
The maxim proved true: Necessity is the mother of invention.
The invention of farming was the initial cause of wars that created peace.
The titles of two competing 16th-century world maps nicely capture the tension between reflection and invention.
One of the simplest of these childish tricks is the invention of an excuse for not instantly obeying a command, as "Come here!"
Wordsworth has illustrated how an unwise and importunate demand for a reason from a child may drive him into invention.
Each new invention threw thousands of hand-workers out of employment.
Dynamite, by the good fortune of invention, came to the revolutionary at the very moment when it was most wanted.
This epoch-making invention, introduced in 1832, rendered possible extraordinary developments.
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On this page you'll find 92 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to invention, such as: apparatus, brainchild, coinage, concoction, contraption, and contrivance.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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