Usually means: Devises plans using skill, ingenuity.
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  1. contrives: Merriam-Webster
  2. contrives: Collins English Dictionary
  3. contrives: Vocabulary.com
  4. contrives: Wordnik
  5. contrives: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. contrives: Wiktionary
  7. contrives: Dictionary.com
  8. contrives: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. contrives: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (contrive)

verb:  To invent by an exercise of ingeniosity; to devise
verb:  To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation.
verb:  To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To spend (time, or a period).
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