cooked-up

Example Sentences

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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

Musicians have found no shortage of ways to bamboozle the system, from all-silent albums to trick playlists to fake features made possible with cooked-up metadata.

From Slate • May 10, 2021

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

Phoebe, my kind tutoress Phoebe, was at the time gone out, perhaps in search of me, or their cooked-up story had not, it is probable, passed smoothly.

From Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by Cleland, John