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(Falsify), verb comminisci, counterfeit, distort, embroider, exaggerate, fabricate, fake, falsify, feign, fib, fictionalize, humbug, lie, make believe, make up, misstate, pervert, pretend, prevaricate, sham, trump up, varnish

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(Produce for the first time), verb author, bring into being, build, coin, come upon, compose, conceive, concoct, construct, contrive, create, design, devise, draft, dream up, envisage, excogitare, excogitate, fabricate, fashion, find, forge, form, imagine, improvise, introduce, invenire, manufacture, originate, produce, realize, reperire, think of, think up, visualize

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Inventing the Needy is divided into three sections which mirror the classifications described above, and is full of Hungarian terms and names which are simultaneously authenticating and distracting.

Arnlaug Leira, Working Parents and the Welfare State: Family Change and Policy Reform in Scandinavia

The other thing that is missing from Inventing Al Gore--and most other recent political tomes--is a realistic explanation of how a democracy founded on the rejection of royal families has produced a contest between a pair of princes.

Inventing Al Gore

And then I saw that people who were coming to him were inventing themselves, and stars who couldn't get work in Hollywood were (bragging about) a three-picture deal, which I knew didn't exist.

ONLY THE FEST INTENTIONS DIRECTOR HENRY JAGLOM FINALLY GETS HIS CANNES FILM OFF THE GROUND

Inventing experiences enhance student process skills such as measuring, experimenting, record keeping and interpreting data.

Index card science: invention competitions have become school-wide activities involving parents and the entire community

Kids in grades 4-6 will appreciate Hubert Invents The Wheel, a zany story of one teen Hubert, who has some ideas of how to make his life in Ancient Sumeria easier--by inventing the wheel, his greatest creation.

Hubert Invents the Wheel

Such inventing does not mean shoring up the traditional media - painting, sculpture, drawing, architecture - but neither does it mean supporting the implosion of the various media into a single continuum, whether that be called installation or Conceptual art or whatever.

The Muses

Another reason many inventors turn to licensing is because they want to continue inventing rather than run a business.

INVENTOR HOPES 4TH TRY'S THE CHARM : ORDERS FROM STORES, CAMP REVIVE HOPES

Earlier this month, Gould finally received a patent for inventing the gas-discharge laser.

The end of a long patent fight

INVENT Pharmaceuticals is an innovative biotech company focused on inventing new drugs for the treatment of CNS and cardiovascular diseases with significantly large unmet medical needs.

American Diversified Holdings Corporation Enters into Broad Strategic Alliance with Leading Biotech Company INVENT Pharmaceuticals, Inc

So whether we fund a dance troupe or a fighter-bomber is an issue almost touchingly dated, massively dwarfed by the question of whether or not the bulk of humanity will be able to stay viable as a species in the face of all these "things," these metanests, that we've invented, and that we show no signs of stopping inventing.

Walk on the wired side

Nietzsche is the one to have linked together the "lightness" of knowing and the "untimeliness" to which it is a force of the arts to give "body" and "space," inventing new affects and new percepts, new ways of experiencing and seeing:

The lightness of theory

With InvenTeams grants up to $10,000 each from the Lemelson-MIT Program, students and teachers at 20 high schools across the country are inventing practical solutions to a real-world problem of their choosing.