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• “Leonard Lyons confected his column six days a week in the tabloid New York Post from 1934 until 1974.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Before Gossip Was Gawkerfied

• “The eclectic score bears this out; it is a rich, cosmopolitan blend of Strauss and Scriabin, with certain intimations of French Impressionism confected by Middle Eastern-sounding arabesques and layered harmonies.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Passion and Pyrotechnics Fit for a King

• “Located in a 15th-century wine merchant's house, the Choco Story museum www.choco-story.be traces the history of chocolate from its origins as the sacred drink of the Mayas and Aztecs to Belgium's emergence as a cocoa-superpower after the Neuhaus family—Swiss immigrants in Brussels—confected the first chocolate-filled bonbons in the first years of the 20th century.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Turning Chocolate on Its Head

• “It" is "Lime Green Icicle Tower," a 42-foot-tall, 9-foot-wide spiky column confected from 2,342 pieces of blown glass that together weigh some 10,000 pounds.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Want to Help Purchase a Lime Green Icicle Tower?

• “I took the plastic tablecloth off my “raised bed” – under which it had spent the winter – and was so struck by the lovely softness of the soil that I confected a second bed with odds and ends of wood from the byre.”

  Archive 2009-04-01

• “The idea that the kids are whizzes at multimedia tasking is a platitude confected by middle-aged techno gurus to peddle their expertise as explainers of generational difference.”

  Forbes: Time For A Slow-Word Movement

• “To have not one child overboard — oh, what a confected scandal that was — but a whole boatload of 49?”

  Global Voices in English » Australia: Playing Political Bingo with Boat People

• “He helped to serve as an agent of sorts for some of the most popular funny animals that appeared upon sugar-confected breakfast foods during the past few decades, including Dougie the frog and Keiler the cocoa bird.”

  Collect This Now! The Cereal Killings | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment

• “That's the bleak, but equally confected, way of our world.”

  The Guardian: The norms of Norman Rockwell | Peter Preston

• “This is a confected world of Capra-esque American stereotypes wearing dungarees and broad grins, and Charles Dickens characters serving up old English history.”

  The Guardian: The norms of Norman Rockwell | Peter Preston

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