invent
verb (used with object)
to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance.
has invented
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present perfectof invent (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Artificial intelligence has invented two new potential antibiotics that could kill drug-resistant gonorrhoea and MRSA, researchers have revealed.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2025
This apparent to-be-or-not-to-be moment initiates a story that finds him wrestling with imponderables, having anguished meltdowns and trying to realize his utopian project using a building material he has invented as he navigates assorted hurdles.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
Since 2018, the group of McMaster engineers and biochemists behind the paper has invented and proven the viability of several packaging-based methods for detecting or halting spoilage, including:
From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 2024
This simple, modest, and therefore truly majestic figure could not fit into that false form of the European hero, the imaginary ruler of the people, which history has invented.
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2024
He has invented a trench and a theory of defensive warfare, but in that courtly company few will listen.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
