concoct

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Kristin Hanggi directs the production, which stars Laura Bell Bundy and Kara Lindsay as friends who concoct impressive résumés to wow former classmates at their high-school reunion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025

Need someone to take the first steps on Niflheim to inhale the planet’s toxic air so the lab can concoct a vaccine?

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2025

In fact, he so frequently challenges the producers to concoct new plans on the fly that they're drawn into an actual competition they cannot lose with the man they're trying to fool.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2025

To begin to process survivor’s guilt, it helps, experts say, to not only be vulnerable but to acknowledge and do away with our instinct to concoct a class system of suffering.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2025

Her girlfriends had sought to concoct dates for her; she was widely encouraged to make use of her beauty and to emerge from the shell of her apparent shyness.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson