Contrived is a Canadian indie rock band. Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Montreal, Quebec, the band consists of Mike Bigelow, Loel Campbell, Mike MacNeill...

A contrived tenancy is a term used in British housing law to describe a situation where a tenancy is created in order to take advantage of the housing...

of the 1830s, "How to Write a Blackwood Article", which includes the contrived acronym "P.R.E.T.T.Y.B.L.U.E.B.A.T.C.H." The use of Latin and Neo-Latin...

move the plot forward. A clichéd plot device may annoy the reader and a contrived or arbitrary device may confuse the reader, causing a loss of the suspension...

similar tactic with its Xperia Z-series smartphones.[citation needed] Contrived durability is a strategy of shortening the product lifetime before it...

extensive effort). Willful ignorance is sometimes called willful blindness, contrived ignorance, conscious avoidance, intentional ignorance or Nelsonian knowledge...

meet-cute situation, and contrived circumstances throw the couple together for much of the screenplay. However, movies in which the contrived situation is the...

advantage that outcomes are observed in a natural setting rather than in a contrived laboratory environment. For this reason, field experiments are sometimes...

however, that this invented name, adopted in the mid-19th century, was contrived solely to be the longest name of any town in Britain. The official name...

To guard against floods, a series of defences against the water were contrived. In the first millennium AD, villages and farmhouses were built on hills...