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Contrive meaning
To invent by an exercise of ingeniosity; to devise | To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation. | To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light.
Example sentences (14)
Decrying alleged profiling of LP candidate, creation of dissension and contrive misunderstanding by some politicians, Shonibare implored residents to ignore provocative posts on social media.
In the way some players fall on the ball, or contrive somehow no longer to have it, or have control of it, some are getting away at least with manslaughter.
Green and I knew we had seen something which, if we valued our careers, we should contrive to forget.
Organizations need to adopt the bucket approach, where even if the different features and functions come from the same system, you contrive ways to separate them.
The goal is to contrive this rhyme pattern in a way that seems uncontrived, so that the rhymes fall naturally in terms of phrasing and meter, but do not call attention to themselves.
The scheme called for a staff officer, ostensibly on a reconnaissance mission, to contrive to be chased by patrolling Turkish soldiers, pretend to be wounded, and drop his haversack, freshly stained with his horse’s blood.
The way to prevent these irregular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs thro’ the channel of the public papers and to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of people.
Botanists took a while to contrive an identity for toyon, which is also known as Christmas berry and California holly.
Hence, Strafford’s initiative: what especially bothers hard Brexiteers is the possibility that Tory MPs might contrive to exclude (or his understudy, Jacob Rees-Mogg) from the final pair of candidates put forward to the membership.
I.e., the U.S. is setting up a rationalization for attacking Iranian assets/forces given any loose reason it can contrive.
It can be concluded that this capacity to contrive lies and misguide can eventually convince one’s self of deliberate fictions, separating through mantra self-brainwashing, any ability to relate to the pursuit of balance, self-examination and closure.
Some families then contrive a series of arranged dances between the newlyweds and their parents, or other members of the wedding party, with guests expected to watch the performances.
The term Engineering is derived from the Latin ingenium, meaning "cleverness" and ingeniare, meaning "to contrive, devise".
The word engineer is derived from the Latin words ingeniare ("to contrive, devise") and ingenium ("cleverness").