invent
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You also can’t invent what is now a lifelong bond.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
While the number of questions you can ask in a day is limited, the number of valuable things superintelligence can invent to help achieve your goals is unlimited.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Another clear argument against divine design is the recurrent laryngeal nerve, which takes a course that simply makes no sense to invent.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
“An officer could simply invent an accusation of criminality, leaving the green-card holder trapped in a bureaucratic twilight zone for years before they have a chance to rebut the accusation at a hearing,” Mark writes.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
I wasn’t even good at them, but give me a football and an empty playground and I could invent last-second triumphs that would bring tears to your eyes.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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He’s made a movie about Odysseus’ remorse for inventing the Trojan horse without a crucial scene: the moment he invents it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
"Our work is a prime example of how evolution seldom invents things from scratch," says Daniel Kronauer, head of the Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior at Rockefeller.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Mr. Hedges invents a lilting melody for “Pinto,” a lyric that had been collected by Lomax, and has honored accordion player Josh Baca take the lead on the Mexican-tinged sound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
In 2052, a celebrated neuroscientist invents an affordable panacea for suffering that’s soon embraced by the entire human race.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2025
Usually, Meadowlark and I use our before-bed time to talk, brush our teeth together, or play cat’s cradle or card games she invents.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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Add orange-rimmed eyes with jet-black pupils set against white cheeks, a dashing black under-eye line and a radiant round orange bill hinge, and the puffin looks like something invented by a talented circus makeup artist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
That you don’t want to be accepting fancy pens or, like, gorgeous gold earrings or an airplane, which wasn’t invented yet.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
Scientists in London have invented what they claim is the world's first fully biodegradable party balloon.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
The movie has invented its own intuitive archetype, so that now they all find themselves saying, “That’s so ‘wrong girls’” in certain situations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
The forensic science that Bertillon and Lépine relied on was invented by Vidocq.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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Or 4-year-old “Emma,” whom Ms. Albon observed inventing a game about takeout meals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
I’m kidding: Even under normal circumstances, giving private companies this much power is likely to incentivize inventing enemies to fight or drive unnecessary spending.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
He’s made a movie about Odysseus’ remorse for inventing the Trojan horse without a crucial scene: the moment he invents it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
While at Arsenal, Anelka claimed he was unhappy with the English media, whom he accused of inventing stories about him.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
He spent a good deal of time alone in his room reading Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe and inventing things.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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