Sentence examples for electronic contrivance from inspiring English sources

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There was the Ultra Hand, a device with a gripping hand at the end of it; the Love Tester, a primitive electronic contrivance that purported to measure the level of ardor between a boy and a girl; the Beam Gun, which used a ray of light to hit simulated targets.

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They were these strange, high-tech (for the time) electronic contrivances with recordings and earphones that were supposed to help students learn foreign languages.

Contrivance is everywhere.

The Sales Research and Planning Division manager of a large corporation, investigating an electronic computing machine with an eye toward purchasing some for his organization, asked a representative of its manufacturer whether it was difficult to train people to operate the contrivance.

Electro prizes contrivance and superficiality.

This was, frankly, a contrivance.

"It is a political contrivance.

Gag: a stunt or "custom contrivance".

Electronic ones.

Her life in Russia was without contrivance.

By Felice Bauer and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, July 1, 1950 P. 16 The Sales Research and Planning Division manager of a large corporation, investigating an electronic computing machine with an eye toward purchasing some for his organization, asked a representative of its manufacturer whether it was difficult to train people to operate the contrivance.

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