Back
Back verb - To promote the interests or cause of.
Invent
Invent verb - To create or think of by clever use of the imagination.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- You may invent your own or choose an obscure rural back-country nobody knows much about and you must provide a seemingly normal Back Story first.
- They also inspired Rosa Parks not to move to the back of the bus, inspire Thomas Edison to invent the lightbulb, among other things.
Source: Been There, Shaped History -
The Brave New World expansion lets you invent the Internet without researching computers, or nine of the prerequisites leading up to it (going back to chemistry in the Renaissance era).
Source: You Have Researched Breathing
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