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With the Queen scheduled to visit, assorted horticulturalists have been contriving floral tributes.

From The Guardian • May 20, 2012

Poor Goldstick Pollnitz is an Honorary Member;—absent at this time in Baireuth, where those giggling Marwitzes of Wilhelmina's have been contriving a marriage for the old fool.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Carlyle, Thomas

I have been contriving a plan for writing without seeing: I hope it will answer, but as yet I get on very slowly.”

From Edward Hoare, M.A. A record of his life based upon a brief autobiography by Hoare, Edward N.

When a number of such trees are growing together, the place is called a topiary, and lately people who can afford the money have been contriving topiaries in some parts of their grounds.

From Chatterbox, 1906 by Clarke, J. Erskine (John Erskine)