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invent English

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invent Verb

— If you invent something, you make or design a new kind of thing. Thomas Edison invented the electric light bulb.

invent

— verb (= excogitate) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort excogitate a way to measure the speed of light — verb (= make up) make up something artificial or untrue

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create fabricate devise contrive make up make concoct think up originate formulate discover cook up plan manufacture build forge find excogitate design trump up produce imagine form find out think out think of think start set up mint innovate frame up fashion evolve dream up detect construct compose coin write vamp up tell stories shape set trap seduce scheme rig retrieve publish pretend

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Language and thought Think Mind

Imagine
Grammar General words Do

Create

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Simple sentences

I need to invent something.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
What did Bell invent?
If God did not exist, we'd have to invent him.
There is no God, unless you invent Him.
Did the Indians invent cigars?
A truth that's told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.
I like to invent useful things.
What did Thomas Edison invent?
If you didn't exist, then I would invent you.
What one man can invent another can discover.
I wish I was smart enough to invent something that sold well enough for me to get rich.
The more creative the sentence, the less likely it is that someone will invent exactly the same one.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
It wasn't always easy for Edison to invent new things.
Individuals invent.
He didn't invent gunpowder.
You don't have to re-invent the wheel.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Galileo did not invent the telescope.

Movie subtitles

She might invent things, of course.
Guy has to invent radio so you can pick up a broken-down outfit in Brooklyn.
We'll have to find somebody to invent a new valve.
Nobody could invent a name like that.
Kuchenreutter, why did you invent such a weapon?
He didn't invent it.
Invent what?
All that you invent, Blore, would take practice!
A man who is master of himself. can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
Did you invent that?
Even my enemies know I'd not invent any such lie merely to evade the consequences of my actions.
I suppose someday somebody will invent something.
I've got to invent a crusade and I don't know what on earth to crusade about.
We did not invent love.
Invent something!
They invent incredible tragedies and believe they're real.
If I couldn't invent a better helmet than that.
I didn't invent her, I saw her.
Circumstances force us to abolish etiquette and invent other codes of behaviour.
I'm used to the stories they invent about me. and which excite their minds.
They don't say anything, you have to invent it.
I didn't invent the mathematics that made me believe what I did.
I can't invent one.
He didn't invent it, it's the basis of all democratic systems.
It's obvious I didn't invent the street sweepers.
Paul, they're tryin' to invent somethin' to kill me right now.
You see, not only will I derive a handsome profit.. From the medical formula you invent and endorse. But I shall also, be using your name as a slogan.
So, for such an adventure, if we don't invent something that will grip people's eyes, ears, heart and enthusiasm! our business is done for!
The world I invent is worth more than the one others see.
You weave plots, invent schemes.
Or did you invent him?
Could I invent a name like Casimir Kowalski?
You could invent anything.
Defend yourself, invent something.
I wish you could invent me something that would write speeches. Good ones.
Other men have invented them, or will invent them, that is.
I didn't invent the rules.
She can invent anything!
And when there are no more wars, we'd have to invent them, yah?

News and current affairs

Because these institutions do not exist, the UN must now invent them.
Did Humans Invent Modernity?
Policymakers need to re-learn their Keynes, explain him clearly, and apply his lessons, not invent pseudo-rational arguments for prolonging the recession.
Instead of every closed market having to re-invent the wheel, once is enough to get everyone's economy going.
Economies can learn faster than they can invent, so less developed countries can achieve much faster growth than was experienced by today's industrialized countries when they were becoming wealthy.
Hezbollah, which led the armed struggle against Israeli occupation, was to disarm and re-invent itself as a political force, representing the Shiite community that was historically marginalized by Lebanon's ruling Maronite, Sunni, and Druze elites.
My own field, chemistry, plays a primordial role in our ability to act upon natural phenomena, to modify them, and to invent new expressions of them.
Now 14 heads of state and government deem it appropriate to invent their own new rules.
But media coverage has failed to look far enough into the future, and to comprehend the full extent of the changes that will be wrought by new forms of electronic money, as people and businesses invent new ways of doing business.
In May 1968, in France, the students - or some of them, at least - who took to the streets to invent a new world were dreaming of Maoist China, a China in the midst of the brutal and senseless Cultural Revolution.
The escalating crisis of legitimacy forced the government to invent imaginative ways to justify its power.
Instead, the industry must re-invent itself.
Suppose it were 1939, and states were debating whether the US should invent the bomb.
Older tribal and clan loyalties in Africa were mangled by the boundaries drawn, in distant cities like Berlin, for colonially-created states whose post-independence leaders needed to invent new traditions and national identities.
As a result, these countries will have to invent new growth patterns to reach advanced-country levels of development.
Our aim should be to invent financial mechanisms for segmenting and spreading risk, so that one bad case no longer has the potential to destroy the whole system.
The regime's true ambition is to invent an alternative to Western democracy: an enlightened despotism under the tutelage of a meritocratic Communist Party.
But, having completed such an important step forward, China must now find new, more humanistic ways to continue to re-invent itself.
Rather than behaving like an empire secretly trying to re-invent itself, Russia has an opportunity to become a regional leader.
Catastrophic disasters associated with climate change are easy to invent, but the effects of remedial actions may be difficult to predict.
The first step towards implementing such policies, however, must be to re-invent and reinvigorate a pan-African identity.
For today we have before us an opportunity to re-invent how we as countries work together to deliver collective solutions to our collective problems.

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