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What does contrives mean?

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  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contrive
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Without charisma, she contrives to shine. She starts the electoral season with a hoard of political capital.
It contrives to combine boastfulness, ignorance, insecurity and hostility in ample and self-reinforcing measures.
For a man who spends so much time in the gym and out on the golf course, he contrives to keep remarkably poor health.
He hardly resembles Lt. Harry Flashman, a duplicitous poltroon who hides during battle and contrives to claim others' glories.
Cloistered in luxury, Des Esseintes contrives a regimen of exquisite sensualism.
In one quite amazingly deft movement he too contrives to wiggle into the minute room.

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