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    con·trive
    [kənˈtrīv]
    verb
    contrive (verb) · contrives (third person present) · contrived (past tense) · contrived (past participle) · contriving (present participle)
    1. create or bring about (an object or a situation) by deliberate use of skill and artifice:
      "his opponents contrived a crisis" · "you contrived to be alone with me despite the supervision"
      • manage to do something foolish or create an undesirable situation:
        "the poor guy in some way contrived to hang himself"
    Origin
    Middle English: from Old French contreuve-, stressed stem of controver ‘imagine, invent’, from medieval Latin contropare ‘compare’.
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    1. create or bring about (an object or a situation) by deliberate use of skill and artifice:
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