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Contrived Oil Sth Contrive Verb Bring Manage Create

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Bring about: manage: create: succeed
Schindler contrived to save more than 1,000 Polish Jews from the Nazis.
The lawsuit says oil companies contrived the oil shortage in the 1970s. (to do sth secretly)
In 1862, a technique was contrived to take a series of photographs showing stages of movement.  (make sth skillfully)

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