Inventions
Lines and inventions are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Lines" instead a noun "Inventions".
Lines
Inventions and lines are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Inventions" instead a noun "Lines".
Both words in one sentence
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In Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Flint invokes this trope by painting Tron lines all over his inventions.
Source: Tron Lines -
While certain British ways/inventions/strategies are used, they're not presented nor implied to be anything along the lines of Mighty Whitey.
Source: Literature / The Far Pavilions -
Arguably Soul Music is the last time in the series that this trope is played straight, with later inventions like semaphore lines (the Clacks), the printing press, postage stamps and (presumably) paper money sticking around.
Source: Discworld / Men at Arms
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