contrivance
Example Sentences
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Most market meltdowns have been triggered by some unique new financial contrivance.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2025
But while the revelation that brings the play to a painful climax has a faint whiff of contrivance about it, the angry confrontation that ensues between Nelson and Nick has a bruising, brutal power.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 26, 2025
"The whole thing hangs on contrivance and familiarity, not characters, so the fights don’t seem to matter much."
From BBC • Nov. 11, 2024
As the prosecution described it, the case that faces a man who made his Hollywood name with the artificial drama of “The Apprentice” needs no contrivance.
From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2024
He is average-sized and prematurely gray, but by some contrivance of carriage and posture, he makes the men who stand before him feel smaller.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
