invent
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You also can’t invent what is now a lifelong bond.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 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
“An officer could simply invent an accusation of criminality, leaving the green-card holder trapped in a bureaucratic twilight zone for years before they have a chance to rebut the accusation at a hearing,” Mark writes.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
Economic security begins with the capacity to build, invent, finance and scale the industries that will define the next century, among them semiconductors, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, advanced manufacturing, shipbuilding, critical minerals and pharmaceuticals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
She’d talk to me, and we’d invent a sign language, which would be great fun.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
"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
Nelson invents a studio, Sparta Comics, and the franchise character, Major Machina, giving each a full backstory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025
I founded a company in Pullman, Wash., that invents and builds products that protect, automate and control critical infrastructure in more than 170 countries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
Someone invents something and puts it to use.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Yes, that Lee Kum Kee, the ones that invented oyster sauce.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Kircher, the authors add, even claimed to have invented another music-making ark, more powerful and capacious—and secret—available “only for princes and worthy friends.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
“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
He said Google was allowing "invented" imagery to be "welded to genuine coordinates, drawn on genuine imagery".
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
But in Miss Penelope Lumley’s day, modern art had not yet been invented, and a painting of a sheep was universally expected to show legs, wool, and a fluffy tail.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Because the more Seemiller studies Gen Z, the more she finds a generation responding rationally to the world it inherited — not inventing entirely new values out of thin air.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
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
Rather than inventing caregiving from nothing, evolution may have expanded feeding behavior so that animals became motivated to provide nourishment to their offspring as well as themselves.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
The company, founded over a century ago, is credited with inventing the pocket checkbook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
One reason why there were so few independent origins of writing is the great difficulty of inventing it, as we have already discussed.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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