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You also can’t invent what is now a lifelong bond.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 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

“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

“That’s right. We don’t know who first realized that those meanings were there, but did the similarity, the association, exist before they realized it, or not until then? Did they invent it or discover it?”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

"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

Safdie even concocts a subplot in which he invents his signature orange ball solely so he can wear all-white like the posh jocks of Wimbledon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025

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

Someone invents something and puts it to use.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

It’s why our drama teacher invented an entirely new role for her in our spring musical, to showcase her generational comedic talent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Yes, that Lee Kum Kee, the ones that invented oyster sauce.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

Kircher, the authors add, even claimed to have invented another music-making ark, more powerful and capacious—and secret—available “only for princes and worthy friends.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

His system uses the same mechanism as the voltaic pile, the world's first electrical battery giving a continuous current invented in 1799 by Alessandro Volta.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

“There’s going to be a live band, Los Coyotes,” Delia invented, showing her perfect teeth as she smiled.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

Because the more Seemiller studies Gen Z, the more she finds a generation responding rationally to the world it inherited — not inventing entirely new values out of thin air.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 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

Rather than inventing caregiving from nothing, evolution may have expanded feeding behavior so that animals became motivated to provide nourishment to their offspring as well as themselves.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

Throughout its history, Apple has done more innovating than inventing, and that’s the case here: The concept of conversational AI isn’t new—but this implementation certainly will be.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

He paced, paused, spoke, and paced behind his palm-leaf altar, giving every impression he was inventing his Biblical parables on the spot.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver