concocted

Example Sentences

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The show tightens up when at its most self-conscious, when the exercise of creating this “Perfectly Concocted Context” turns to clever navel-gazing.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2017

Concocted for a benefit thrown by Eve Ensler, it entered the journalistic record when described by Eric Felten in the Wall Street Journal in 2006.

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2013

Concocted on the fly a half-century ago, the official poverty measure ignores ever more of what is happening to the poor person’s wallet — good and bad.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2011

Concocted for the theater when the iconoscope was still a gadget little known outside the laboratory, Playwright Thornton Wilder's crazy, mixed-up parable of the human race is a tale told largely in TV's own terms.

From Time Magazine Archive

You need not deny it, and swear that no better Concocted was ever in London or Paris; Remember the praises you gave in your letter Of cooking and eating you wrote to Miss Harris.

From Nothing to Eat by Alger, Horatio