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as in innovations
something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination
his clever invention made people's lives easier
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as in fictions
something that is the product of the imagination
unsurprisingly, the story about being kidnapped by aliens was pure invention
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Recent Examples of inventions
For centuries, people gathering in bars and pubs have found ways to occupy their time, whether that’s classic games like billiards and darts or more recent inventions like video games and mechanical bulls.
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Fritz Hahn, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
The printing press, clocks, muskets — all these inventions changed humankind forever.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
The modern electric washing machine is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2026
In their view, population growth—and with it more people, minds, and ideas—fuels progress, innovation, and ultimately well-being, propelling inventions from the plow to ChatGPT.
—Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
It was included in Time's best inventions list in 2022 after its first year of operation.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 16 Dec. 2025
Somehow, none of it ever tips into ultraseriousness or total absurdity; the audience can both laugh at such inventions as a cabal of white supremacists (named the Christmas Adventurers) and shudder at the kind of power these characters represent.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2025
The hands-on exhibit also includes notes by Da Vinci about his inventions.
—Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2025
Some of this bleeds over into the film, namely via the Wizard and his penchant for inventions like model trains, wind-up toys, and the big metal Wizard mask itself.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inventions
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As supply chains evolve and demands change, plant and factory managers are encouraged to adapt, with technological innovations continually elevating operations.—
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The industry can’t innovate if the brands don’t invest in those innovations.—
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The vast encyclopedic architecture of Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) or Mason & Dixon (1997) gives way here to a series of detective fictions each set in a distinct historical moment, each featuring a reluctant investigator sifting through the wreckage of cultural paranoia.—
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The fictions that result, many so small and meaningless, can be accepted without much trouble.—
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And, once again, fantasies of surgical strikes are yielding to messy realities.—
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Ride a Luge Live out your Milan 2026 fantasies at Michigan's Muskegon Luge Adventure Sports Park.—
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Immigration tales tend to adopt a hybrid form—part elegy for life in the home country, part hymn to the promise of the new.—
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The rest will fade into irrelevance — remembered not for their art or innovation, but as cautionary tales of what happens when inclusion becomes optional.—
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Partners have no control over or input into the reporting or editing process and do not review stories before publication.—
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Below, Dyens and Miailhe speak to Deadline about the importance of unearthing human stories amid the tragedy of the World War II era.—
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Geminis have a tendency to speak of fables to protect themselves or to make their lives seem more fulfilling.—
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His movies — farces, fables, experiments — reside in surreal worlds of their own.—
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My hope is that political discourse in 2026 focuses on solutions, not accusations and fabrications.—
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These included fabrications of Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc, 1981, and On Kawara’slost briefcase, stolen during a 1979 trip.—
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“Inventions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inventions. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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