invent

Definition for invent

verb as in create, think up

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bear, come up with, conceive, design, devise, discover, dream up, envision, fashion, find, forge, formulate, initiate, originate, produce

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ad-lib, author, coin, compose, contrive, execute, fake, form, frame, hatch, imagine, improve, improvise, inaugurate, jam, make, mint, plan, project, wing

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bring into being, come upon, cook up, knock off, make up, off-the-cuff, toss off, turn out

verb as in fabricate

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concoct, forge

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equivocate, fake, falsify, feign, fib, lie, misrepresent, misstate, pretend, prevaricate, simulate, vamp

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conjure up, create out of thin air, make believe, make up, tell a white lie, tell untruth, think up, trump up

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Other characters regard Chad as strange without seeing him as suspicious and accept the increasingly ridiculous stories Russ invents to keep selling the lie.

From Los Angeles Times

But Kennedy did not invent this schtick of trying to rebrand misogyny as feminism through trolling and feigning “concern” for women and children’s safety.

From Salon

Meanwhile, Lockjaw’s Perfidia fixation chafes against his desire to join a clique of snooty white nationalists invented for the film called the Christmas Adventurers Club.

From Los Angeles Times

The Cabinet Office says one case it found involved a woman who invented a company and then sent the loan money to Poland.

From BBC

Amazon UK manager John Boumphrey said the firm would "continue to invent and invest" in the UK.

From BBC

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