Exact(1)
Inflation theory has been cock of the walk since the early 1980s, when physicist Alan Guth concocted it to solve several problems that had been plaguing big bang theorists.
Similar(57)
I like to imagine the first Wolof tribesperson who concocted it, laughing at us all aruging over their creation.
It is written down, it's not me concocting it".
In one such aside we learn that the actor who was considered too tall, too thin, too gawky and too lukewarm for long-term stardom was also too physically weak to support Margaret Sullavan, his leading lady in The Mortal Storm: A special pulley system had to be concocted to make it appear that Jimmy was able to heroically carry Sullavan.
I am not sure what lies they would have concocted to embellish it, but I am certain they would.
Mr. Child's dazzling explication of exactly how he concocted Jack Reacher ("To me it was crucial that he should have a certain nobility — which is a strange thing to say about a guy who goes around busting heads as frequently and thoroughly as Jack Reacher does") is as lucid and gratifying as his books are.
It must, therefore, work as the suspense-surprise-murder mystery it is concocted to be for real, as well as a spoof of all the techniques, set-ups and devilish behavior, plotting and tantrums of writers who would kill for a hit.
Yet he would continue to take it, concocting solutions to neutralise the fizzing chemical reaction going on in his stomach in a futile attempt to minimise the damage.
He finally earned a government post, but his reforms threatened other officials, and, as legend has it, they concocted a plan to drive him out: They sent his superior eighty beautiful girls, who succeeded in occupying the boss so thoroughly (he disappeared for three days) that the righteous Confucius had to leave.
It was designed (if indeed it was designed, rather than just randomly concocted) not to delight the sophisticated senses but to insure survival.
The museum occupies a portion of the old machine shop of the defunct Bethlehem Steel shipyard, a long brick building looking out across the piers toward the Manhattan skyline, which looms so tantalizingly close as to have tempted generations of politicians, financiers, transportation moguls and engineers to concoct faster ways to reach it.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com