Agent and Invention

Agent

Agent noun - Something used to achieve an end.

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Invention and agent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Invention" instead a noun "Agent".

Nearby Words: agency, agential

Invention noun - Something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination.

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Agent and invention are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Agent" instead a noun "Invention".

human	human agent	human invention
old	old agent	old invention
special	special agent	special invention
powerful	powerful agent	powerful invention
Other adjectives: actual, real, evil, capable, new, titular, last, greatest.

Agent Carter: Howard Stark says that when he gets an idea for an invention, no matter how dangerous, he can't not make it.

Source: Science-Related Memetic Disorder
In it, a literary agent is murdered via a bomb placed in his car, for discovering that Erica Windermere, the ill and secluded female teenage author he sponsored, didn't exist but was the invention of two con artists that made themselves pass as her "foster parents".

Source: Based on a Great Big Lie
Meanwhile, the Black Lectroids have sent an agent to Earth to warn Buckaroo that their historic enemies the Red Lectroids will try to steal his invention the Oscillation Overthruster (which the Jet Car used to enter the 8th Dimension) and use it to release their comrades from interdimensional exile.

Source: Film / The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

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