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Synonyms for contrive

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Synonyms for contrive

come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort

put or send forth

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The clause 2.1.1 says 'fixing or contriving in any way or otherwise influencing improperly, or being a party to any agreement or effort to fix or contrive in any way or otherwise influence improperly, the result, progress, conduct or any other aspect of any Domestic Match, including (without limitation) by deliberately underperforming therein.'
2.1 Corruption: 2.1.1 Fixing or contriving in any way or otherwise influencing improperly, or being a party to any agreement or effort to fix or contrive in any way or otherwise influence improperly, the result, progress, conduct or any other aspect of any Domestic Match, including (without limitation) by deliberately underperforming therein.
GEORGE O'GRADY has suggested the European Tour will not "contrive" its Final Series to ensure the outcome of the Race to Dubai comes down to the last event.
The other trials have so far shown that Contrive generally outperforms placebo pills in spurring weight loss; in one, for instance, study participants on the drug lost an average of 6 percent of their initial weight over one year, compared with just over 1 percent among placebo users.
Of the respondents, 75% of women and 50% of men contrive ways to get a good sleep.
"Those who contrive the accident will claim they were carrying four passengers who all suffer whiplash.
After our support for Iraq in the 1980s did not give us what we sought, we did manage to contrive a war to liberate Kuwait.
Will some court contrive to find some pretence under the Charter for a ruling that a faithful Christian has no right to refuse a print order from an organization dedicated to destroying innocent human life?
Invention in the eighteenth century meant to discover something hidden as well as to contrive something new, both of which fit the Great Awakening.
The sun shone at last on the Bath Festival but Somerset and Essex could only contrive a strange and unsatisfactory day's cricket.
1.1 Fixing, contriving or otherwise influencing improperly, or being a party to any agreement or effort to fix or contrive or otherwise influence improperly, the result, progress, conduct or any other aspect of any International Match Article 2.
He has been charged with breaching Article 2.1.1 of the ICC's code ( being party to an effort to fix or contrive or otherwise influence improperly the result, progress, conduct or other aspects of an International match or matches), Article 2.1.3 (offering a player US $30,000 to fix or contrive or otherwise influence improperly the result, progress, conduct or other aspects of an International match or matches) and Article 2.1.4 (directly solicited, induced, enticed or encouraged a player to breach Article 2.1.1).