invent
verb (used with object)
to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance.
Used to describe a continuous action that will progress up until a designated point of completion in the future.
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"Mr. Gore, I think you will have been inventing things to tell her," Mariquita protested, laughing again.
From Mariquita A Novel by Ayscough, John