contrivances

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Contrivances like that may have made it possible for a project written by so many hands to cohere under such difficult circumstances, but they can’t make the result mean much.

From New York Times • May 18, 2021

Contrivances like automatic spending cuts substitute for judgment.

From Time Magazine Archive

The book was eventually published in 1862 with the title On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilized by Insects, and on the Good Effects of Intercrossing.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

Included would be all ‘new Contrivances, whether Notions, Engines, or Experiments’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

What vast Contrivances, on purpose to be ridicul'd and expos'd?

From The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon by Defoe, Daniel