How to Use invent in a Sentence
invent
verb
- We found out that he had invented the stories he told us about his military service.
- She is credited with inventing a procedure that has helped to save thousands of lives.
- She invented a clever excuse.
- Thomas Edison invented the phonograph.
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The ones that break all the rules, the ones that invent new ones.
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Michael Ordoña,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Nov. 2021
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Young didn’t invent the idea of serving a platter of fried wings, of course.
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Matthew Korfhage,
USA TODAY,
23 Nov. 2021
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For the most part, Mr. Van Drine does not invent these poses.
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Jacob Gallagher,
WSJ,
18 Oct. 2021
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Who is to judge the winner in a contest that must invent itself over and over?
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Krista Stevens,
Longreads,
31 July 2023
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And in 2009, the anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto invented Bitcoin and the blockchain.
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Ben Weiss,
Fortune Crypto,
5 June 2023
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Then in 1971, two years after the game was invented, one was found.
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Alex Stone,
Quanta Magazine,
18 Jan. 2024
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In fact, this hot sauce's claim to fame is that it was used to invent Buffalo wings.
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Jorie Nicole McDonald,
Southern Living,
8 Dec. 2023
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Facebook, the iPhone and YouTube had not yet been invented.
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USA TODAY,
18 Apr. 2024
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But that will not stop Trump from inventing one from scratch.
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Jon D. Michaels,
Foreign Affairs,
10 June 2024
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Even then, had to quasi-invent a space to finally park.
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Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com,
al,
22 Nov. 2022
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Yes, Chrysler invented the minivan, but that was decades ago.
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Chris Isidore,
CNN,
5 Dec. 2024
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Here, once again the creative sorts of people have free reign to invent this, that and the other option.
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Nathan Lewis,
Forbes,
10 July 2022
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In the end we shall be forced to invent something that will be able to think faster than the AI, and that will keep it under control.
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Simon Rich,
The New Yorker,
21 June 2022
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Howland didn’t invent valentines or bring them to the United States.
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Catherine E. Shoichet,
CNN,
13 Feb. 2024
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Ironically, the one that proved a bridge too far for some was the one Cameron did not invent: The name of the rare metal that served as the film’s MacGuffin.
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Chris Klimek,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 Dec. 2022
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The Swiss were the first to invent the quartz movement that the Japanese later used to redefine the watch industry in the 1970s.
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Andrew Binns,
Forbes,
10 Sep. 2024
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The British engineer James Wimshurst did not invent the machine that bears his name.
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IEEE Spectrum,
14 May 2023
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Dickens invented the very kind of book that O’Hagan has written.
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Randy Boyagoda,
The Atlantic,
16 Aug. 2024
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That gave the space agency 11 years to invent and build and launch the ships—to say nothing of securing approval and funding for them in the first place.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
12 June 2024
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Lore has it that the creation is a good three decades old, invented by a bagel purveyor named Hadley Longe.
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J. J. Goode,
New York Times,
14 Aug. 2023
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The first chips, invented in the late 1950s, held only a handful of transistors.
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Alex W. Palmer,
New York Times,
12 July 2023
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As a child, he was given free reign to invent, reimagine and to mentally start from scratch.
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Hessie Jones,
Forbes,
29 Oct. 2021
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It’s designed to be very easy to modify, so that users can quickly invent and test out all kinds of parts.
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IEEE Spectrum,
15 Feb. 2023
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Meanwhile, Bell Labs went on to invent the practical solar cell in the 1950s.
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Nicholas Wyman,
Forbes,
29 Feb. 2024
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Sanctuary has invented miniaturized valves that are 50x faster and 6x cheaper than off the shelf hydraulic valves.
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IEEE Spectrum,
13 Dec. 2024
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Dynamic ticket pricing was invented for games like that.
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Jon Greenberg,
The Athletic,
19 Dec. 2024
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