The phrase 'contrive with' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to indicate the process of coming up with a strategy or solution to a problem in collaboration with others. For example: "The team members needed to contrive with each other to come up with a plan to reach their goals."
He presents a lively portrait of the rapacious "looting machine" in which international mining companies contrive with local African elites to strip the continent of its resources.
'There are many theories with regard to "perception" and the relationship one might contrive with the "ineluctable modality of the visible",' says the narrator, with another hefty and tedious wink to the weary reader.
After that, you suddenly got the bullshit stories that people contrive with these tapes.
Equal parts "Animal House," and "Stand by Me," this buddy flick tells the story of 12 college-age students who contrive with great expectations and minuscule budget to take their friend from Georgia to Los Angeles to get his wheelchair customized on MTV's "Pimp My Ride". It's a comical and poignant tale.
She clinched the deal she had contrived, with a coup de grace.
It has some uncanny similarities to the project that Twain contrived with Howells.
That is the kind of surprise -- even if it was contrived with company jawboning -- that investors like.
Playtime is wonderfully controlled and contrived, with deep-focus scenes of surreality that must surely have inspired Roy Andersson.
My reservation is that the story itself is a bit forced and contrived, with a soft centre that's been overcooked.
To me, a surface that is awkward, clunky or contrived with the sole purpose of making a clue harder somewhat spoils the fun.
It was contrived with the purposes of (i) providing sufficient osmolarity and buffering capacity, (ii) minimizing ionic species to facilitate the binding of extracellular proteins to anion-exchange media, and (iii) enhancing PAC expression level and secretion efficiency.
