as in to devise
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination
trying to concoct an explanation for how the lamp got broken by itself
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Recent Examples of concoct
The menu allows customers with rewards accounts to access popular drink combinations that fans have concocted, that are not listed on its regular menu.
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Alain Sherter, CBS News, 14 July 2025
Free to experiment, distillers are concocting playful new expressions that summon the sea to your glass.
—Camille Berry, Vogue, 15 July 2025
It’s well established that the Trump-Russia hoax was concocted to harm Trump, but Ratcliffe’s move is a prosecutorial dead end.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 13 July 2025
The library had commissioned her to concoct historical smells for an exhibition about the lives of medieval women.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 July 2025
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Alain Sherter, CBS News, 14 July 2025
Free to experiment, distillers are concocting playful new expressions that summon the sea to your glass.
—Camille Berry, Vogue, 15 July 2025
It’s well established that the Trump-Russia hoax was concocted to harm Trump, but Ratcliffe’s move is a prosecutorial dead end.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 13 July 2025
The library had commissioned her to concoct historical smells for an exhibition about the lives of medieval women.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concoct
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As the Panthers’ general manager from 2013 to just before the 2017 season began, Gettleman devised the rosters that pushed Carolina to four playoff berths in five years.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
17 July 2025
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Participants identify challenges in their communities and devise local, innovative solutions to address them.—
Cynthia Tully,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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Flip invented the Wheezer Scale for gauging the difficulty of hiking up hills.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 July 2025
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Computer researchers invented the technique in the 1990s to screen bots from entering information into websites, originally using images with letters and numbers written in wiggly fonts, often obscured with lines or noise to foil computer vision algorithms.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 July 2025
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As the fireline is constructed, inspected or reinforced, mappers record those details to adjust the containment percentage.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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Depending on the species, voles construct surface or underground runways in areas with heavy ground cover.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
2 Aug. 2025
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