Verb
To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.
To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhy not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not? David Foster Wallace
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old. Edmund Burke
It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman. Michael Chabon
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction. Patrick Nielsen Hayden
If you must commit suicide – and there is no knowing to what people may be brought – always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of. George Borrow
You must contrive to bake with the flour you have. Danish Proverb