Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
invent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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My Aunt Gainor was all her life fond of what she called inventing chances,
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Crucially, he oversaw Big Brother where he was instrumental in inventing a system of recording all the house conversations, with students listening via headphones and writing down quotes.
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For a man who participated in inventing a false threat, invading a country and not protecting our troops and destroying the lives of many Americans is a mockery of LEADERSHIP!
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Peoples without writing, as the anthropologists like to call them, have succeeded in inventing a form of total communication, through song and myth.
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That's what inventing is about, my friends, it is about improvement.
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"It's a compendium of barbarities, both primitive and thoroughly modern, a vision of life reduced to its brutal basics: violence is constant; sex is urgent, sloppy and profoundly unromantic; and the struggle to survive makes men and women appallingly creative in inventing ways to mistreat one another."
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And here's a bit of trivia ... thanks to his work in inventing languages and like, Burgess was a consultant (along with Desmond Morris) on "Quest for Fire" in which he helped develope the languages used by the various tribes of the movie.
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The Fellahs are exceedingly clever in inventing methods of manslaughter.
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I call it inventing evidence where previously none existed, merely to bolster one's own rhetoric.
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He also branched out into science, dabbled in inventing, and founded a museum in Philadelphia (which his descendants eventually sold to none other than P.T. Barnum.)
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