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Daisy exists alongside other sounding boards — a doctor played by Alfre Woodard, a Russian gardener played by Simon Helberg — that the screenwriter Rebecca Banner has contrived in place of characters.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023

Haynes, who is concurrently editing his documentary on the Velvet Underground and developing a twelve-part TV series on Sigmund Freud, has contrived to keep himself almost continually in that climate of surrender.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 4, 2019

However, it hardly helps that the festival has contrived yet another confrontation, this time with its 4,000-strong press corps which, when all is said and done, sustains the festival’s enormous media profile.

From The Guardian • May 4, 2018

Maybe so, but the connections that Mr. Huff has contrived to link together the many characters in “Big Lake Big City” are not my idea of theatrical heaven, either.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2013

Now I realize that Kwang has contrived that the girl is here for me.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee