invent
Example Sentences
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But during the greatest turnaround that Silicon Valley has ever seen, Jobs was fanatical about one idea: Apple was a place to invent the future, not dwell on the past.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
They’re the ones that invent this stuff in the first place.
From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026
“We aren’t doing anything crazy. We didn’t invent service charges.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
Rebecca Black’s “Friday” didn’t invent being nasty online.
From Salon • Feb. 16, 2026
We know him as Giordano Bruno, but he liked to invent long names and titles for himself, names, it was said, longer than his body.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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