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Navatek would open an office in the state or district of a powerful member of Congress and partner with a local university to concoct a proposal for federally funded research.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

And even though a cellphone can now checkmate Garry Kasparov, artificial intelligence hasn’t managed to concoct a foolproof plan to win every time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

But the sport’s actual heartland, where engineers concoct the most sophisticated machines in motor sports, could hardly be farther from superyachts and velvet ropes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

Rather, he’s using a shoestring budget to concoct left-of-center sights that feel like a peek into a specific Los Angeles netherworld.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026

Shackleton had consulted the British Army’s nutritionist, who believed in the newfangled idea of vitamins and who helped concoct the rations.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

With each manicured frame and deceptively poignant observation on the impossibility of living normally in modern life, Kramer concocts an original, wonderfully empathetic study of the desire to play spectator to a world on fire.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026

Each weekday, your host, Ray Hamel, concocts a challenging set of unique questions on a specific topic.

From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2023

Multicellular living matter concocts its own schemes, which means cells won't necessarily stay in the same place or state.

From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023

She meets a big-city con man who’s pretending to be a podiatrist — “Corn doctor,” the sign outside his office says — who then concocts a plan to swindle the desperate farmers.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

Spike concocts what looks like a gourmet meal out of the regular offerings of the cafeteria.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon

More recently Fielder created and starred in “The Rehearsal” on HBO, another comedy docuseries, where he concocted scenarios where people “rehearse” for real events.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

As is true of the best novels, the story emerges not as a scheme concocted by the author, but as an organic outcome of each character’s growth over the life of the book.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Uefa insists that the plan was concocted without the knowledge of them or other key stakeholders in football, and that it had been long in development.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

But John believes all of it to be an elaborate publicity stunt concocted by Arcane — or, at least, that’s what he tells himself.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

“Professor Snape has very kindly concocted a potion for me,” he said.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

He has gone so far as giving these agents names and concocting personal back stories for them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

In an opening flashback, we learn that a technician concocting a freakish T. rex littered a Snickers wrapper, causing a chain reaction that within two minutes resulted in the snacker becoming a snack.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2025

Williams, having supposedly brought disgrace on Harlequins by independently concocting the blood capsule plan, sought advice from the Rugby Players' Association.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025

It’s a lot of pressure, concocting a flawless ending.

From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024

In 1768, the Berlin embryologist Caspar Wolff tried to finesse an answer by concocting a guiding principle—vis essentialis corporis, as he called it—that progressively shepherded the maturation of a fertilized egg into a human form.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee