precontrive

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• There was nothing contrived about the celebrations that greeted the news of the President’s intervention.

• Many conversations feel rehearsed, and many gatherings appear contrived to bring characters into conflict.

• This app got me thinking about how contrived all of our units of measurement are, but how they seem to make sense when we apply them to the correct things.

• In ancient Sparta, the lawgiver Lycurgus had contrived to make his constitution permanently unamendable.

• Yet he never met her, even when it would have been easy to contrive an encounter.

• There are thousands of ways to contrive a weapon that's at least as dangerous a two-inch hobby knife.

• He must contrive to keep his family alive as he strategizes.

• The Republicans contrive new ways every day to get less popular.

• That made me think, maybe they can contrive to do something similar on the mandate.

• Everybody understands that politicians contrive photo opportunities in which they can perform "care" and "concern."

• If any one of the parts should be lost or broken, it would require some ability in that country to contrive a substitute.

• You generally contrive to make yourself useful to your father in one way or another.

• I knew too well that if I took any legal measures, he would contrive to shift the whole burden of lunacy upon me.

• The cabin instantly obeyed them, and they having entered it began to consult how they should contrive to live there.

• Our great object was, as the reader will naturally suppose, to contrive some way of escape.