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invent
1. v. To design a new process or mechanism.
After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.
2. v. To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
I knew I had to invent an excuse, and quickly.
We need a name to put in this form, so let's just invent one.
3. v. (obsolete) To come upon; to find; to discover.

Example Sentences

I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it.  Man may invent anything, save for the art of being happy.  America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented America.  The more creative the sentence, the less likely it is that someone will invent exactly the same one.  If you didn't hear it with your own ears or see it with your own eyes, don't invent it with your small mind and share it with your big mouth.

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