as in devising
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination
she's a master at excogitating reasons not to do her assigned work
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He is accused of devising the scheme using a contraband cell phone, from which authorities recovered several recordings of the Brooklyn native detailing the plot.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
10 Mar. 2025 -
The usual path to devising generative AI consists of what is known as autoregressive LLMs, while the promising new avenue is referred to as diffusion LLMs (dLLMs).—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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There has been quite a lot of progress lately in inventing brain-computer interfaces (BCI), also known as brain-machine interfaces (BMI).—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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All sixth graders from all nine schools in the Encinitas Union School District get to spend a week at the district’s Farm Lab taking part in Salad Wars, inventing their own organic salad dressing and competing against their classmates for the honor of The Golden Fork.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Excogitating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excogitating. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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