All questions and answers are transmitted by text message between mobile-phone users and a remote server that concocts imaginary dates.

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Founding narratives often include these revelatory moments, when a founder is confronted with some glaring inefficiency and concocts an idea to fix it.

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The finished product, if ever someone actually concocts one, could be applied across a variety of fields -- everything from pollution monitoring to medicine.

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What follows is a hair-raising escape involving an SUV and a freight train, after which Nick concocts the grand design that brings him 200 feet above midtown.

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The "mad genius" concocts music that is as mesmerizing as it is odd and eclectic, running the gamut from electronic trip-hop to guitar heavy arena rock and earnest, acoustic singer-songwriter work.

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Deploying British Columbia-grown fruit to full effect, the company concocts 25 spirits on site, including fruit liquors such as blueberry and sea buckthorn, and a taste bud-popping prune brandy called Old Italian.

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When, in the backwash of the 1929 Wall Street crash, his business (whose employees are all clad in chocolate-box lilac) suffers a downturn, he concocts a plot of murder and insurance fraud that launches him toward the roiling underworld from which prosperity had shielded him.

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