invented

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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 telegraph, another created the first revolver, still a third was the father of the American sewing machine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 3, 2026

It all traces back to an over-30-year-old legal brief from Big Tobacco: They created the modern liability shield playbook and invented the legal interpretation that its successors are now trying to complete.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2026

Working evenings at the Harlem Hospital, he invented a method for characterizing bacterial organisms in patients with pneumonia, publishing his first paper at the age of 21.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026

It took Barry a few seconds to recognize the special move they’d invented for Akivo so the energy from his secret power star, Beta Draconis, could flow from his pinky into his heart.

From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis