Invent
Invent verb - To create or think of by clever use of the imagination.
Lead
Lead verb - To point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Some sources claim that he felt guilty about the global health ramifications of leaded gasoline, and that guilt may have lead him to invent a substitute for the harmful ammonia, chloromethane, and propane used in refrigeration: dichlorofluoromethane, the first of the freons.
Source: Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds -
Turn lead into gold, paint the most famous portrait of all time, and invent the first hang glider.
Source: Historical Badass Upgrade -
In Angry Lead Skies, two of the "silver elves" enhance Kip Prose's brain so he'll invent better and better technology, hoping that he'll eventually create the industrial base for them to repair their ship.
Source: E.T. Gave Us Wi-Fi
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