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orchestrate

 verb
     
Related topics: Music
or‧ches‧trate [transitive]
1 written to organize an important event or a complicated plan, especially secretly:
The riots were orchestrated by anti-government forces.
a carefully orchestrated promotional campaign
2APM to arrange a piece of music so that it can be played by an orchestra
—orchestration noun [uncountable and countable]
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