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as in devised
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 Synonyms for concocted
Verb
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That should become a standard part of the chain-of-thoughts being devised by AI.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024 -
Similarly, Ping’s team devised a system that pauses the pH-modulating current just long enough for a graphene transistor to record accurate readings without interference.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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But that is all quite contrived; pretending this was anything other than a worrying night for Kompany would be disingenuous.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
The Athletic,
18 Feb. 2025
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Eric Dane is cast as Weaving’s bodyguard and only hope of escaping the contrived wedding planned by her obsessed fan.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
13 Feb. 2025
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Lollapalooza was invented by a boomer.—
Jim Greer,
SPIN,
24 Dec. 2024
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Someone invented the elevator, and so skyscrapers happened, and cities changed forever.—
David Pierce,
The Verge,
22 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The leads are largely stuck sniping at each other between bouts of labored philosophizing and personal backstory, never coming close to a credible mutual rapport.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
26 Feb. 2025
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Image Her paintings at times look schematic and labored, and in general pale beside the sculptures.—
Deborah Solomon,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Warm up some canned black beans, and stir in taco seasoning.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
24 Feb. 2025
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The boxes contain canned protein, vegetables, pastas, tomato sauce, and staples such as oatmeal cereal and rice.—
Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The inter-hemispheric coupling is an assumed connection between the Antarctic mesosphere and Arctic stratosphere, in which rare high-altitude clouds regularly appear and disappear at the same time, usually in the month of January, Sato said.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
21 Jan. 2025
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Thankfully, Flow will remain a dark horse for the trophy, as the assumed animation front-runner, The Wild Robot, was also recognized for its Score and Sound.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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However, for artists to individually notify companies about their consent or lack thereof seems unrealistic, according to critics of the proposal.—
Marina Watts,
People.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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Trump’s promise to end that war quickly and cleanly is unrealistic.—
HAL BRANDS,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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As a result, the company spent most of last year working on simulated reasoning models like o1 and o3, which use a different inference-time (runtime) approach to improving performance instead of throwing ever-larger amounts of training data at GPT-style AI models.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
28 Feb. 2025
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Do what would be impossible in reality – explore 3D structures, perform simulated surgeries, or conduct physics experiments in zero gravity.—
Ray Ravaglia,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Concocted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concocted. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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