cooked-up
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While Marissa and Peter pivot between rage and not-quite-mourning, and other characters are perpetrating cooked-up complications to the story, Alcaras conducts an investigation that is so commonsensical it defies the rules of crime fiction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
The lawsuit lists a series of meetings and messages in which the clinic attempted to address the state’s cooked-up licensing concerns, to no avail.
From Washington Times ● May 29, 2019
On the way, he asked for $200, telling a cooked-up story about a friend with a broken-down car.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2018
A statement on the group's website, which is blocked in China, appeals for international help for Wu, saying that he is a purely religious figure facing cooked-up accusations.
From Reuters ● Jul. 16, 2015
Sam has been got out of the way by a cooked-up story, ditto your manager.
From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles
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