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[ verb ] devise or invent

Examples

"He thought up a plan to get rich quickly" "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software"

Used in print

(Wayne D. Overholser, The Killer Marshal....)

It could be some kind_of trick Budd had thought_up .

Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al_Budd had thought_up was dispelled .

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