concocted
Example Sentences
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It said it was "concocted well after the event in an attempt to obscure and conceal the realities of the disguised funding scheme".
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Uefa insists that the plan was concocted without the knowledge of them or other key stakeholders in football, and that it had been long in development.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
No surprise, the panel agreed with him and concocted pretexts to kill the treatment—for instance, the staff opined that maybe biopsies had zapped the tumors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
But John believes all of it to be an elaborate publicity stunt concocted by Arcane — or, at least, that’s what he tells himself.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
We’d been talking about sound waves, and to demonstrate the difference in water, she’d concocted an experiment.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
