Since it is, after all, based on numbers, some try to concoct market-beating formulas.
They concoct a strategy to strip their taxable income to the lowest legal levels.
Or will they chicken out and concoct some milquetoast settlement that lets the King skate free?
Users can also concoct their own screens from up to 70 variables and back-test strategies.
Politicians eager for office have the street smarts to concoct a good story and look busy.
You have to concoct something with an unusual color, flavor or alcohol content.
With the help of architects and industrial engineers, Beatpower has managed to concoct particularly striking audio hardware.
In medieval times, professional perfumers would concoct personal scents for their clients from six to eight special ingredients.
Their first assignment: concoct a winning recipe for meatballs, then sell more of them than the rival team.
Sooner or later, though, someone will concoct a deal in which the financial benefits outweigh the political obstacles.
Symyx had to concoct a new catalyst that could withstand such high heat.
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Engineers can use DNA readers to concoct designer microbes to grow future fuels.
Leave that language for those imbeciles who concoct history text-books and Bollywood screenwriters.
Kikkoman promoted soy sauce in America by hiring chefs to concoct recipes that incorporated the sauce into classic American dishes.
The French want to concoct a euro-zone block, with a direct line to the European Central Bank and fiscal harmonisation.
Depicting Khadija as planning to concoct a holy book out of the Old and New Testament defies an intrinsic Islamic belief.
And the result of trying to concoct a tune that would please everyone: a load of harmonised but largely meaningless Euro-drivel.
Why be happy with a mere 100 flavors of Snapple iced tea when the human mind can concoct up to twice that many?
Almost all the cost of a drug is in the development and the complex hardware required to concoct the chemicals that become the medicine.
Third, in spite of its outlier status, human nature makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact, making it explainable and predictable.
The spin doctor Connie Brean (Robert De Niro) partners with the Hollywood producer Stanley Motss (Dustin Hoffman) to concoct a straight-to-video war with Albania.
The student goes for a run in New York City with college friend who used to concoct juice drinks with him after class.
Your broker, your insurance agent, your accountant, your banker, even your lawyer might likewise concoct a plan for you, with the cost somewhere in between.
Although Chuang continues to promote Goya chocolate bars in the country, he vows not to fight head-on with me-too products but to concoct new treats.
Lord Archer's current problems arose when a former friend, Ted Francis, claimed that he had been asked to concoct an alibi for him in 1987.
Newcomers are greeted with a Ylang-Ylang scented cold towel to refresh and revive, along with a bottle of local white rum to concoct a welcome cocktail.
No doubt, many have tried to concoct something similar, but Roger's discovery of TouchCo enabled him to create one sans the limitations of imitators.
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As one of the most biodiverse places on the planet, supporting jungle, high mountains and coastal desert, Peru calls upon a formidable stash of raw materials to concoct its cuisine.
As the hint of summer vacation emerges on the horizon, wanna-be travelers begin sifting through travel guides, both real and online, to concoct just the right vacation getaway.
In fact, Libya's effort to concoct an atom bomb never got very far, and its small stock of rudimentary chemical weapons is probably already in the rubbish bin.
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