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  • adjective fictional, made up, imaginary.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of invent.

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Examples

  • Advertising has never invented anything except what artists have invented� It appropriated the Beautiful which the cinema of the New Wave had rejected, which makes certain ignorant critics say that beautiful equals advertising.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • Advertising has never invented anything except what artists have invented� It appropriated the Beautiful which the cinema of the New Wave had rejected, which makes certain ignorant critics say that beautiful equals advertising.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • Advertising has never invented anything except what artists have invented� It appropriated the Beautiful which the cinema of the New Wave had rejected, which makes certain ignorant critics say that beautiful equals advertising.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • A sense of shared generic or “Judeo-Christian,” a term invented in this period values began to emerge, and in institutional terms the ecumenical movement gathered steam.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • What's worse is that the "war on terror," a term invented by George Bush, has been progressively turning into a "war on Islam," at least that is how it is perceived by the majority of Muslims, as confirmed by various polls.

    Maher Arar: The True Cost Of 9/11 Maher Arar 2011

  • These were the famous Roman latifundia, or wide fields, to use a term invented in the empire.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • These were the famous Roman latifundia, or wide fields, to use a term invented in the empire.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • These were the famous Roman latifundia, or wide fields, to use a term invented in the empire.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • These were the famous Roman latifundia, or wide fields, to use a term invented in the empire.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • The so-called Broad Front, a term invented by and sniffed at by many of the British hierarchy, was made to sound like a timid strategy, a compromise forced on Ike by pressure from the United States.

    General Ike John S.D. Eisenhower 2003

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