invent

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If we’re gonna go really deep, I didn’t even invent the music that I wrote — maybe it was written millions of years ago, and I’m just tapping into something.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Ehrlich displayed a total lack of confidence in man’s ability to improvise, innovate and invent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

They’re the ones that invent this stuff in the first place.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026

Rebecca Black’s “Friday” didn’t invent being nasty online.

From Salon • Feb. 16, 2026

That poem, aptly titled “The Bells,” uses so many different words to describe the sounds made by bells that Mr. Poe evidently ran out and had to invent a new one: “tintinnabulation.”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood