invent
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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
How did he come to invent such a strange spiritual system, and develop the nerve to sell it both to mainstream publishers and the academic establishment?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
“If we were in the chocolate business, we wouldn’t simply make a low-sugar option,” he said, but invent a “cocoa chewable gummy they never thought was possible.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
He didn’t invent them and surely didn’t understand them.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
And all of them said, in complete unison, “Why did Frances Miranda Gonzagaga invent whatnots?”
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
When a 14-year-old Ronnie O'Sullivan was asked by a TV reporter in 1990 what he admired about his snooker hero Steve Davis, he replied "he invents shots … not many players can do that".
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
Toner-Rodgers said an old classmate worked at a large company in the field of materials science, a branch of engineering that invents novel forms of matter that can be used in technologies like biomedical devices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025
Even when he rewrites precedent and invents his own doctrines, his steps have been plotted years in advance.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025
There aren't many musicians whose sound is so distinctive and influential that the music industry invents a whole new genre to describe it.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
He invents a machine to slice carrots: lift a lever, nineteen blades drop, and the carrot falls apart into twenty neat cylinders.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
But he had invented a sport and would do whatever it took to play it.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Like a lot of the recipes I come back to most, this one wasn’t invented so much as accumulated.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
One invented the mechanical reaper, another a machine for the mass production of horseshoes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Because California basically invented AI slop!” said Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, president of the California Federation of Labor Unions, AFL-CIO, in a post on X.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
The thing’s enormous, eight feet high and wide, with webs of wires and rows of rotating rotors—like something the Son of Frankenstein might have invented, if he’d been a brilliant code breaker.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
My ancestors arrived with uncertainty and hope, welcomed by a country still inventing itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The Lydians are widely credited with inventing coinage, and their ruler, King Croesus, became legendary for his immense wealth.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026
He said he has also worked with tech employers who “are inventing the future, quite literally,” and “creating a lot of jobs and opportunity.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Lee also pointed to a Wednesday post on X from Bollinger Capital Management president and founder John Bollinger, best known for inventing the Bollinger Bands technical tools.
From MarketWatch ● May 7, 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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