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  • 11cook something up — (informal) CONCOCT, devise, contrive, fabricate, trump up, hatch, plot, plan, invent, make up, think up, dream up. → cook * * * concoct a story, excuse, or plan, esp. an ingenious or devious one * * * ˌcook sthˈup derived (informal) to invent sth …

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  • 12cook — verb 1》 prepare (food) by mixing, combining, and heating the ingredients.     ↘(of food) be heated so as to reach an edible state. 2》 informal alter dishonestly.     ↘(cook something up) concoct a clever or devious story, excuse, or plan. 3》 (be… …

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  • 13cook up — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms cook up : present tense I/you/we/they cook up he/she/it cooks up present participle cooking up past tense cooked up past participle cooked up informal to invent a story, excuse, or plan Between them they… …

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  • 14cook something up — concoct a clever or devious story, excuse, or plan. → cook …

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  • 15cook up — {v.}, {informal} To plan and put together; make up; invent. * /The boys cooked up an excuse to explain their absence from school./ …

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  • 16cook up — {v.}, {informal} To plan and put together; make up; invent. * /The boys cooked up an excuse to explain their absence from school./ …

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  • 17cook\ up — v informal To plan and put together; make up; invent. The boys cooked up an excuse to explain their absence from school …

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  • 18Sandra Lee (cook) — Sandra Lee (born Sandra Lee Christiansen [ [http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2007/05/14/tidbits1.html Food Network star Sandra Lee peeled onions as a youth at the Puyallup Fair Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle): ] ] on July 3, 1966 …

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  • 19Crimes De Guerre Japonais — Crimes de guerre du Japon Shōwa Les crimes de guerre du Japon Shōwa désignent les crimes de guerre qui ont été commis par les Japonais au cours de la période de l’impérialisme japonais, à partir de la fin du XIXe siècle jusqu’en 1945,… …

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  • 20Crimes de guerre du Japon — Shōwa Les crimes de guerre du Japon Shōwa désignent les crimes de guerre qui ont été commis par les Japonais au cours de la période de l’impérialisme japonais, à partir de la fin du XIXe siècle jusqu’en 1945, principalement durant la… …

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