Thesaurus / contrive
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There was nothing contrived about the celebrations that greeted the news of the President’s intervention.
TUNISIA'S PRESIDENT STAGED WHAT LOOKS LIKE A COUP. BUT DEMOCRACY ISN'T DEAD THERE YETSIMON SPEAKMAN CORDALL / TUNISJULY 30, 2021TIMEMany conversations feel rehearsed, and many gatherings appear contrived to bring characters into conflict.
NETFLIX’S MY UNORTHODOX LIFE IS MORE BRAVO DOCUSOAP THAN REAL-LIFE UNORTHODOXJUDY BERMANJULY 14, 2021TIMEThis app got me thinking about how contrived all of our units of measurement are, but how they seem to make sense when we apply them to the correct things.
OUTDOOR THINGS, BUT BY UNFAMILIAR MEASUREMENTSBRENDAN LEONARDJUNE 22, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEIn ancient Sparta, the lawgiver Lycurgus had contrived to make his constitution permanently unamendable.
THE STORY BEHIND THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE'S MOST MEMORABLE LINEAKHIL REED AMARMAY 7, 2021TIMEYet he never met her, even when it would have been easy to contrive an encounter.
HELEN FRANKENTHALER CAME FROM WEALTH AND PRIVILEGE. HER ART TRANSCENDS THAT.PHILIP KENNICOTTMARCH 19, 2021WASHINGTON POSTSo we’re not going to snipe at Axios’s efforts to contrive a workaround for McCammond.
POLITICO LOSES SCOOP TO PEOPLEERIK WEMPLEFEBRUARY 11, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIf any one of the parts should be lost or broken, it would require some ability in that country to contrive a substitute.
LIFE OF RICHARD TREVITHICK, VOLUME II (OF 2)FRANCIS TREVITHICKYou generally contrive to make yourself useful to your father in one way or another.
ELSIE'S VACATION AND AFTER EVENTSMARTHA FINLEYI knew too well that if I took any legal measures, he would contrive to shift the whole burden of lunacy upon me.
THE TALKING HORSEF. ANSTEYThe cabin instantly obeyed them, and they having entered it began to consult how they should contrive to live there.
THE STORY OF YVASHKA WITH THE BEAR'S EARANONYMOUSWORDS RELATED TO CONTRIVE
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