concocting

Toddy was so nicknamed because of his diabolical cleverness in concocting toddies.

Chapter 29 2010

There has been only partisan participation in concocting the means to force the legislation through.

The DNC thinks shooting at Republicans ‘appropriate.’ [And a fundraising opportunity!] | RedState 2010

Or Dr. Frankenstein concocting from his menagerie of elemental particles a wondrous creation but one that could, in an instant, mutate into a destructive monster, severing pinkies, arms, perhaps even torsos.

The “45.5 Meteorite Craters Made by Humans on Their 45.5 Hundred Million Year Old Planet” Fountain 2005

Or Dr. Frankenstein concocting from his menagerie of elemental particles a wondrous creation but one that could, in an instant, mutate into a destructive monster, severing pinkies, arms, perhaps even torsos.

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Toddy was so nicknamed because of his diabolical cleverness in concocting toddies.

Chapter XXIX 1913

Felicity had spent the whole previous day and the forenoon of the picnic day in concocting them.

The Story Girl Lucy Maud 1911

What our leaders are concocting is a Frankenstein monster — which I’ll call the Kennedy-Baucus Plan (per the senators’ joint statement on May 30th, in which they stated their intention to produce “similar and complementary legislation that can be quickly merged into one bill for consideration on the Senate floor before the August recess.”)

Wonk Room » Kennedy Staff Circulating ‘Draft Of A Draft’ Health Care Legislation 2009

I'm a bit old school, so the idea of concocting a story featuring a journalist who then reports on the self-created event seems, well, wrong.

A tale of two stings 2011

No one can seem to figure out exactly who came up with the idea of concocting the story that turned out not to be true.

CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2007 2007

He has lately allowed in a published letter that he used a poem by Mrs. Whitman in "concocting" one of his own.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Various