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He was interested in a disease called bacillary dysentery, which is a bacterial infection that causes severe diarrhea, and back then, was actually killing a lot of people, because after all, no cure for bacterial infections had been
invented.
Most of the time, countries still persist in behaving as if they were warring, selfish tribes battling against each other, much as they have done since the nation-state was
invented
hundreds of years ago.
Now, one of my favorite conversations during this year was with the guy who
invented
my coffee cup lid.
Here's how the original version,
invented
in 1818 by English engineer Sir William Cubitt, worked.
In Peru, they call it the Peruvian Décima, because the Décima becomes so integrated into our traditions, that if someone asks, people from each place are completely convinced that the Décima was
invented
in their country.
So now, I had been studying the Décima, and after finding out that everyone tried to claim the Décima as their own, that it was
invented
in their country, it made me wonder: What does it mean when we say the milonga is Uruguayan?
And if, for example, they were nomadic pastoralists, they were pastoralists, people living in deserts or grasslands with their herds of camels, cows, goats, odds are they would have
invented
what's called a culture of honor filled with warrior classes, retributive violence, clan vendettas, and amazingly, centuries later, that would still be influencing the values with which you were raised.
I mean, these psychologists didn't need any complicated brain scans; they only had to measure the farmer's IQ, and IQ tests were
invented
more than 100 years ago.
Trinidad is also home to the only acoustic instrument
invented
in the 20th century: the steel pan.
Now, before sliced bread was
invented
in the 1910s I wonder what they said?
But this guy named Otto Rohwedder
invented
sliced bread, and he focused, like most inventors did, on the patent part and the making part.
And they
invented
a feature called Snapstreaks, which shows the number of days in a row that two people have communicated with each other.
And just to give you some sense of the enormity of what that accomplishment actually was, although Madison couldn't have known it at the time, today that same constitutional technology that he
invented
is still in use not only in the US, but, 230 years later, in places like Canada, India, South Africa, Brazil.
This scenario is inspired by the trolley problem, which was
invented
by philosophers a few decades ago to think about ethics.
It was
invented
in 1858, by this guy Ferdinand Carré, but he couldn't actually build anything with it because of the tools at the time.
Well, the key to this technology is called photogrammetry, and it was
invented
here, in Germany.
This is a revolution in astronomy, like when Galileo
invented
the telescope.
Now, I
invented
my own form of the zoetrope, which removes the drum and replaces the slits with a video camera.
If you know of photographers, the joke is it's the finest form of delayed adolescence ever
invented.
But still, if you just took that data from that crash to the federal government, and said, "I have
invented
a new car seat.
This is an example of coercive logic,
invented
by the great logician and puzzle creator Raymond Smullyan.
He wrote a list of what the phonograph might be good for when he
invented
it, and kind of only one of his ideas turned out to have been the right early idea.
Now I don't know if any of you out there
invented
chicken nuggets, but I'm sure you're rich if you did.
Invented
in the early 20th century by Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach, the Rorschach Test is actually less about the specific things we see, and more about our general approach to perception.
The feather is one of the most astonishing pieces of technology
invented
by the natural world, and for centuries, this feather has helped birds to keep dry, to keep warm and even power flight.
This is the guy that
invented
it, Sir Clive Sinclair, and he's showing his machine.
And, you know, I mean, I'll look at a couple of things like this, but Google is obviously the greatest technology ever
invented
for navel gazing.
This one was
invented
in 1988 by a Facebook Fellow called Yann LeCun, and it propagates data stages through what you could think of as the human brain.
We've unleashed this amazing creativity by de-slaving us from farming and later, of course, from factory work and have
invented
so many things.
I believe only one percent of interesting things have been
invented
yet.
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