0 the act of contriving -- berikhtiar
His current predicament is the result of his own contrivance.
1 something contrived (especially something mechanical) -- alat
a contrivance for making the door open automatically.
With care and sensitivity he manages to juxtapose, place and transform his field recordings without contrivance.
In spite of the clear benefit with the use of 'unreal' examples, there is a persistent prejudice against such contrivance.
This is only a preliminary surprise as readers familiar with the joyful outcome of his contrivance already know.
Punctuation delineates rhetorical structure, so that a reader can be explicitly alerted to certain formal contrivances relevant to the communicative significances embodied in a text.
Lest one think that this type of sample-tosample difference is a theoretical contrivance unlikely to happen in practice, several simple "thought experiments" suggest the opposite.
Anything more is merely a superfluous philosophical contrivance.
These technical contrivances constitute the substance of the economic process.
These rights are never given by nature, but are rather the result of social - and normally governmental - contrivance.
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