contrive in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

contrive in the PONS Dictionary

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hacerse el encontradizo
to contrive a meeting
ingeniarse
to contrive
apañarse
to contrive to
trapichear (artimaña)
to contrive

contrive Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to contrive to do sth
ingeniárselas para hacer algo
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He was also contriving to do a great deal of work at the national museum.
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They contrive another reason to meet: driving lessons.
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Sure, it was contrived, and convoluted to boot.
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In 1868, he contrived a system of gaskets to prevent the buildup of scales on the inner walls of steam boilers.
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His paintings were unusually popular with forgers, leading his son to contrive various means of identifying the originals, including certificates of authenticity and wax stamps.
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Provided this was not so unnaturally contrived as to allow an attacker to drain the system, it served two defensive purposes.
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Intended to disorientate, it comes over as contrived.
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Most songs just arrive the way they do by accident, and its certainly not particularly contrived.
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Do not try to contrive a consistent political allegory out of her flight into fantasy.
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And, further, the folkloric inspiration is dried up: at most we could merely contrive a sterile facsimile.
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