pure invention
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpureandinvention
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pure
adjective
uk/pjʊər/us/pjʊr/
not mixed with ...
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invention
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪnˈven.ʃən/us/ɪnˈven.ʃən/
something that has never been made before, or the process of creating something that has never been ...
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(Definition ofpureandinventionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Their tale ispureinvention.
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Was nothing said about this at all, or was this apureinventionof the reporter concerned in a perfectly reputable paper?
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It is apureinventionof our political opponents, and has no basis in our contention.
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That statement is, therefore, apureinvention.
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That story is apureinventionfrom beginning to end.
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Are we to believe that the whole thing is quite a trivial matter and that the greater part of these stories arepureinvention?
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It waspureinventionby a journalist and the newspaper printed a retraction some days later.
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It must bepureinventionby a large number of journalists.
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That was a piece ofpureinvention.
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I can confirm that stories about meetings at the party-political level arepureinvention.
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I cannot imagine that that was apureinventionof a newspaper of that kind.
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It is a pure lie, apureinvention.
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In other words, the whole thing waspureinvention.
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Are we to understand that the statement was apureinventionon the part of the newspaper?
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I thought what they were saying waspureinvention.
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This was apureinvention.
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His reasons arepureinvention.
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It is apureinvention.
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It was apureinvention.
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That, of course, waspureinvention.
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