to invent

Synonyms

contrive

Examples

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him. Voltaire

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. Alexis de Tocqueville

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. Evelyn Waugh

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way. Seth Godin

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. Germaine Greer

Words in the phrase

to invent

Close letter words and terms

to intomb to intrude to intrust to invigorate to involve to irritate