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- verb Present participle of
confect .
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Examples
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He delighted in confecting noms de guerre for himself: Comisario Basilio, Bambi, and Solo (after the spy in the TV series The Man From U.N.C.L.E.).
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He delighted in confecting noms de guerre for himself: Comisario Basilio, Bambi, and Solo (after the spy in the TV series The Man From U.N.C.L.E.).
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And the Brits are so much better at explaining what they are doing invading foreign countries and confecting colonial policy than Americans.
Eric Margolis: BRITAIN MAY PULL THE PLUG ON THE ROYAL NAVY Eric Margolis 2010
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And the Brits are so much better at explaining what they are doing invading foreign countries and confecting colonial policy than Americans.
Eric Margolis: BRITAIN MAY PULL THE PLUG ON THE ROYAL NAVY Eric Margolis 2010
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Within weeks the Bush administration began confecting war plans against Saddam.
John Prados: Still Lying After All These Years John Prados 2011
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And the Brits are so much better at explaining what they are doing invading foreign countries and confecting colonial policy than Americans.
Eric Margolis: BRITAIN MAY PULL THE PLUG ON THE ROYAL NAVY Eric Margolis 2010
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In the widely anthologised "Martian" poetry of his early career, it allowed him to renew and clarify experience by confecting a language of unlikely but fitting juxtapositions.
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Just as Petraeus emerged from the Iraq debacle wearing laurel leaves, so he and Obama probably will succeed in confecting some mythical story that also will be swallowed by the American people.
Michael Brenner: McChrystal: What's Going Down in Washington and Afghanistan? 2010
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He did this by confecting a clear rationale for his actions: he was not hooking up with the girlfriend of the man who made him; he was hooking up with a girl about whom he used to fantasize.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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And because Simon is incapable of doing anything without confecting some conflict to it, we're told the chaps have "a race against time to be ready" for Saturday.
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