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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

invent

(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

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

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

The end of a long patent fight

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: