noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a plot contrivance
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This was a steam-driven contrivance used in 19th century clothing factories.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another visitor who arrived just before the Bigelow party took one look at the flimsy contrivance and declined to descend.
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At Midvale and elsewhere, he would invent machines and other contrivances, a number of which he patented.
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But the 1996 World Cup was something of a contrivance , a made-for-promotional-purposes event.
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Documentary began to be deserted in favour of contrivance and artifice.
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He never was in earnest, Cadfael reflected with certainty, and it would spoil his sport to use contrivance .
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In the absence of the contrivance , the increase would not occur.
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In this way a social contrivance appears to be founded on the natural order of things.
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My irritation at the contrivance lasted for 30 seconds.