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  • contrivance :the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
    • his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem

  • contrivance :an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
    • his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track

  • contrivance :an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
    • the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable

  • contrivance :a device or control that is very useful for a particular job

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