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• v  make a concoction (of) by mixing
• v  prepare or cook by mixing ingredients
  concoct a strange mixture
• v  invent
• v  devise or invent

• As in their previous collaboration, "Being John Malkovich," Spike Jonze and the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman concoct an intricate, scrambled parallel universe populated by anxious .
• The Grant Study, a longitudinal study of a group of promising young men that began in the late 1930s, reveals life stories more vivid than any theory one could concoct to explain .
• And as the children concoct their own stories, Skeeter and the rest of the cast are dragged through a variety of threadbare fantasies an Old West showdown, a medieval joust, a .

• cook up
• trump up
• think up
• think of
• dream up
• hatch

News & Articles

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• Children experiment with flavor creation
  Children explored one sweet science Saturday, June 15, at the Exploration Station in Grover Beach as Greg Steinberger, aka Doc Burnstein, showed how to concoct new flavors of ice cream.
  June 22, 2013 - The Adobe Press
• The worst jokes we could think of on Alabama adding a waterfall to its locker room
  There are jokes to be made about this, but none of them are any great. Every single joke that could ever be made about Alabama adding a waterfall boils down to Auburn's water being lesser or whatever. So let's try to concoct the worst jokes we possibly can about all this.
  June 18, 2013 - Philly.com
• Burger balls: Your new favorite dish
  My sister Maggie is the queen of the kitchen in my house. She is someone who can break out a half a dozen different ingredients and concoct something delicious out of it, as opposed to the mucked up mess I would make.
  June 17, 2013 - Independent Florida Alligator

Quotes

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• Charles Baxter in Grand Forks Herald
  We're in a time when people can concoct an identity, if they want to, on the Web,Baxter said. "There's nothing to keep you, in a way, from being somebody you are not if you're not actually meeting people in real life."
• John Dramani Mahama in Modern Ghana
  If the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department, under President Bush, can find $30 billion for Bear Stearns, if they can concoct a $150 billion rescue for AIG, if they can commit $250 billion to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and if they can back... Chris Dodd http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dodd&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEH6KhTelit2c6abwwfkW8cWFajOg Washington Post http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/05/AR2008120501029.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHDYQ4vTL65Q6l_83wWvSSQ9x-IOw Dec 5, 2008 20678 28543 concoct Mr Mahama said: To those who have taken it upon themselves to concoct and propagate these vicious rumours against our party, and to those who would aid and facilitate the spread of such rumours, we wish to remind them that the Bible enjoins us, as...