cooked-up
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She also cooked up the idea to improvise some Elvish, the fictional language of J. R. R. Tolkien’s novels.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025
His radical lawyers, William Kunstler and Ron Kuby, cooked up an initial defense of “black rage.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025
Protose was a meat substitute of wheat gluten and peanuts, cooked up by the food reformer Dr. John Kellogg, the fellow whose name you know better from a line of sometimes quite sugary cereals.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025
In a filmography so packed with laugh-a-second gags, 1988’s “The Naked Gun” and its two sequels are funnier, sharper and more daring than anything else the trio cooked up.
From Salon • Aug. 1, 2025
Thyon, thirteen years old and sharp as the point of a viper’s fang, had looked around him at the cryptic rituals and philosophies and seen it all as obfuscation cooked up to excuse that failure.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
