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verb
To invent
make, improvise, devise, think up; see create 2, invent 1, plan 1.To succeed with difficulty
manage, pass, compass, negotiate, afford, engineer, manipulate, shift, make shift, get by, arrange, execute, carry out, effect, bring about, maneuver, swing*, wrangle*; see also achieve 1, succeed 1.
See contrive in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
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