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invent
verb as in create, think up
Strongest matches
bear, come up with, conceive, design, devise, discover, dream up, envision, fashion, find, forge, formulate, initiate, originate, produce
Strong matches
ad-lib, author, coin, compose, contrive, execute, fake, form, frame, hatch, imagine, improve, improvise, inaugurate, jam, make, mint, plan, project, wing
Weak matches
bring into being, come upon, cook up, knock off, make up, off-the-cuff, toss off, turn out
verb as in fabricate
Strong matches
equivocate, fake, falsify, feign, fib, lie, misrepresent, misstate, pretend, prevaricate, simulate, vamp
Weak matches
conjure up, create out of thin air, make believe, make up, tell a white lie, tell untruth, think up, trump up
Example Sentences
"There is no such field as captivity medicine, and we are inventing it," said Dr Steinman told the BBC on Saturday, after the team learned the identities of the hostages they would be treating.
The Queen also revealed that the Vesper Martini, which was invented by author Ian Fleming as James Bond's drink of choice, was a favourite tipple of the "much missed" Dame Jilly.
It will find new cures for deadly diseases, solve climate change and invent an inexhaustible supply of clean energy, they argue.
“We have a lot to catch up on. But it’s a very good atmosphere to invent things.”
In our reporting, that feature has been shown to exacerbate the bot’s tendency to “hallucinate,” or invent false information.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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