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• v  make or work out a plan for; devise
  They contrived to murder their boss
• v  come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
• v  put or send forth

• His mother lived to contrive, by dint of much scrimping, to stake young Chiang to four years of military schooling in Japan.
• We must still contrive to love her .
• Apparently they would rather contrive a political issue than foster a genuine discussion about the future of our country.

• plan
• project
• design
• invent
• devise
• excogitate
• formulate
• forge
• cast
• throw

News & Articles

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• BIS annual report is a reminder of who really makes the gold market
  Publishing its annual report Sunday, the Bank for International Settlements provided more documentation that central banks remain the biggest participants in the gold market even as their activity in that market is carefully overlooked by the mainstream financial news media, which struggle every day to contrive rationalizations for gold price movements without ever getting too close to what is ...
  June 24, 2013 - GoldSeek.com

Quotes

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• Johnny Marr in Washington Post
  I love the music we make,says Marr. "We don't analyze or contrive anything. We just get together and whatever it sounds like is Modest Mouse as long as it inspires Isaac to write some words and sing over the top."
• Matt Kenseth in PR-USA.net (press release)
  Jeremiah Weed never fails to surprise fans with playful activities that only he can contrive,said Matt Kenseth. "I look forward to taking on Isner in Jeremiah Weed's Backyard, and whether on the 'court' or on the track, hope to bring home...
• Adam Smith in KGTV, 10News.com
  Smith wrote: "All nations have endeavored, to the best of their judgment, to render their taxes as equal as they could contrive; as certain, as convenient to the contributor, both in the time and in the mode of payment, and, in proportion to the...