contrive
verb (used with object)
to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent.
are contriving
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present progressiveof contrive.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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And their size is governed by the wavelengths of sunlight, not by the imagination of engineers who are contriving ever more miniaturized transistors down the Moore’s Law learning curve.
From Forbes ● Feb. 14, 2011
It is plain enough to me that certain people are contriving for his ruin.
From The Symposium by Henry Graham Dakyns
We are contriving every way we can to redress the evils we feel and fear from too great a quantity of paper.
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams
"Done!" exclaimed Sturges; "but you are contriving this up for a chance to get away, you scamp."
From The Rangers; or, The Tory's Daughter A tale illustrative of the revolutionary history of Vermont by D. P. Thompson
Cinthio and I, are contriving how we shall see you to Night.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Montague Summers
