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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of confect.

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Examples

  • To have not one child overboard — oh, what a confected scandal that was — but a whole boatload of 49?

    Global Voices in English » Australia: Playing Political Bingo with Boat People 2009

  • He helped to serve as an agent of sorts for some of the most popular funny animals that appeared upon sugar-confected breakfast foods during the past few decades, including Dougie the frog and Keiler the cocoa bird.

    Collect This Now! The Cereal Killings | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • "It" is "Lime Green Icicle Tower," a 42-foot-tall, 9-foot-wide spiky column confected from 2,342 pieces of blown glass that together weigh some 10,000 pounds.

    Want to Help Purchase a Lime Green Icicle Tower? 2011

  • The idea that the kids are whizzes at multimedia tasking is a platitude confected by middle-aged techno gurus to peddle their expertise as explainers of generational difference.

    Time For A Slow-Word Movement Trevor Butterworth 2009

  • I took the plastic tablecloth off my “raised bed” – under which it had spent the winter – and was so struck by the lovely softness of the soil that I confected a second bed with odds and ends of wood from the byre.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Jean 2009

  • Located in a 15th-century wine merchant's house, the Choco Story museum www.choco-story.be traces the history of chocolate from its origins as the sacred drink of the Mayas and Aztecs to Belgium's emergence as a cocoa-superpower after the Neuhaus family—Swiss immigrants in Brussels—confected the first chocolate-filled bonbons in the first years of the 20th century.

    Turning Chocolate on Its Head Paul Ames 2011

  • Leonard Lyons confected his column six days a week in the tabloid New York Post from 1934 until 1974.

    Before Gossip Was Gawkerfied Edward Kosner 2011

  • Leonard Lyons confected his column six days a week in the tabloid New York Post from 1934 until 1974.

    Before Gossip Was Gawkerfied Edward Kosner 2011

  • The eclectic score bears this out; it is a rich, cosmopolitan blend of Strauss and Scriabin, with certain intimations of French Impressionism confected by Middle Eastern-sounding arabesques and layered harmonies.

    Passion and Pyrotechnics Fit for a King Jonathan Blitzer 2011

  • I took the plastic tablecloth off my “raised bed” – under which it had spent the winter – and was so struck by the lovely softness of the soil that I confected a second bed with odds and ends of wood from the byre.

    Jean's Knitting Jean 2009

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