Verb (used with object) : to invent the telegraph. ,to invent a story. ,to invent excuses. From Dictionary.com.
Wasn't 國語 the term invented by the KMT as part of their efforts to suppress Taiwanese?. From Wordnik.com. [Black Boxes] Reference
'' 'Allopathy'''is a term invented by blah blah blah. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
“Half-Blood” is not a term invented by J.K. Rowling. From Wordnik.com. [Ray Submerges PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF | Obsessed With Film] Reference
Soccer is a term invented by losers with inferiority complex. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: THE MOST UNTRANSLATABLE WORD.] Reference
Capable of living without free oxygena term invented by Pasteur. From Wordnik.com. [I. The Physiological Theory Of Fermentation. On the Relations Existing Between Oxygen and Yeast] Reference
"Um. 'Cynical' is a term invented by optimists to describe realists.". From Wordnik.com. [Across The Sea Of Suns]
Anarcho-capitalism is a term invented by Leftists like Gil and Mierduck. From Wordnik.com. [Cafe Hayek] Reference
"BRIC" is a term invented in 2001 by Jim O'Neill, the chairman of Goldman. From Wordnik.com. [Reuters: Top News] Reference
Traveling involves a term invented by the racers known as an 8-hour circle. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Both books feature a McGuffin, which is a term invented, I think, by Alfred Hitchock. From Wordnik.com. [Youngman Carter] Reference
Excited derlerium is a term invented by the cops made to sound like a legitamate medical term. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
That's a term invented by researchers to describe how influence spreads from one person to another. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Chopra: Choose Your Epidemic: Tea Parties or "Yes We Can"] Reference
Was it a term invented by the crafty to dash cold water upon the potential unity of a scattered force?. From Wordnik.com. [Broken to the Plow] Reference
It is a term invented as a rhetorical trick to silence any questions (and I mean ANY questions) about AGW. From Wordnik.com. [RealClimate] Reference
"UnPBX" was a term invented in the 1990s by Ed Margulies, who came up with the criteria used to define them. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Macrology is a term invented by a friend of mine, Mike who is also equally as crazy as I am in macro photography. From Wordnik.com. [Robin] Reference
It was a term invented to describe the ratio between the lowest and highest EMITTED light in an computer monitor. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
He became their head of h.r., which in a firm of less than twenty was probably a title invented only to lure him. From Wordnik.com. [When You Don’t Want to Be Big Business] Reference
Note: AGW is shorthand for anthropogenic global warming, which is NOT a term invented by or exclusive to skeptics. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Climate Protectionism?] Reference
It was a term invented by left to critize Ronald Reagans tax cuts that got us out of the recesion of the Carter years. From Wordnik.com. [KSL / U.S. / National] Reference
Rotato was a term invented for the sole purposes of this online game, and therefore has never been said by anyone ever. From Wordnik.com. [SLACKERJACK – Monsterstack] Reference
Tensegrity frame, a term invented by Buckminster Fuller of Geodesic dome fame which is a portmanteau of Tensional Integrity. From Wordnik.com. [gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine] Reference
Thus, we have "soccer moms", a term invented for the private chauffeurs that each child needs to go to their programmed exercise. From Wordnik.com. [Health in America] Reference
"Palestinian" is a term invented by Arabs to create a non-existent ethnic group for the purpose of attacking and eliminating Israel!. From Wordnik.com. [JSOnline.com] Reference
"A word invented by the Boston transcendentalists.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
The illusion of beauty -- which is merely a conventional term invented by man!. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.] Reference
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