as in to concoct
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination
she quickly devised a new scheme when the first one failed
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Recent Examples of devise
Faced with limited minimum wage job options, Autumn devises an online sugar baby operation.
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
But that pressure only helped cement the framework that Joe Biden’s administration devised.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 24 Jan. 2025
Trump's team is reportedly devising plans for future sanctions on oil to pressure Russia into ending the war, as reported by Bloomberg.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
To bring the cases, prosecutors had to devise a new system to collect, store and analyze a monumental volume of cellphone video that became a model for similar platforms now being used to bring war crimes cases.
—Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
But that pressure only helped cement the framework that Joe Biden’s administration devised.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 24 Jan. 2025
Trump's team is reportedly devising plans for future sanctions on oil to pressure Russia into ending the war, as reported by Bloomberg.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
To bring the cases, prosecutors had to devise a new system to collect, store and analyze a monumental volume of cellphone video that became a model for similar platforms now being used to bring war crimes cases.
—Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for devise
Recent Examples of Synonyms for devise
Verb
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Werfel concocted a more tortuous explanation for his wife’s grotesque behavior.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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Director Josh Ruben, along with screenwriters Phillip Murphy, Christopher Landon and Michael Kennedy, craftily concocts a sweetly sinister genre mashup, blending romantic comedy tropes with slasher movie fodder.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
31 Jan. 2025
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Read Benjamin Wallace-Wells on the man who invented the conflict over critical race theory and Jessica Winter on the conservative activists using attacks on diversity to wage a wider battle on public education.—
Ian Crouch,
The New Yorker,
31 Jan. 2025
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Companies prey on insecurities, selling solutions to invented problems.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
25 Jan. 2025
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Our businesses and residents depend on Canadian products – from lumber to construct housing to dairy products, energy and more.—
Matthew Medsger,
Boston Herald,
4 Feb. 2025
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It's designed to be so easy and simple to construct that one person, without any help or tools, can set it up and start living the tiny life.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
2 Feb. 2025
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“Devise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devise. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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