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
The problem in devising such a tax is defining what constitutes a robot.
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Zach Halaschak, The Washington Examiner, 10 Oct. 2025
To help the butterfly out, Bendicksen devised a plan to use the wing of a dead butterfly to repair the broken one.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Few dishes are irrefutably Athenian—apart, perhaps, from the curious Athinaïki salata, a mayonnaise-and-fish concoction devised to disguise leftovers.
—Katherine Whittaker, Saveur, 9 Oct. 2025
Toward the end of last month, GM devised a plan to have its in-house lending arm initiate the purchase of EVs in its dealers’ inventory.
—Mike Colias, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
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Zach Halaschak, The Washington Examiner, 10 Oct. 2025
To help the butterfly out, Bendicksen devised a plan to use the wing of a dead butterfly to repair the broken one.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Few dishes are irrefutably Athenian—apart, perhaps, from the curious Athinaïki salata, a mayonnaise-and-fish concoction devised to disguise leftovers.
—Katherine Whittaker, Saveur, 9 Oct. 2025
Toward the end of last month, GM devised a plan to have its in-house lending arm initiate the purchase of EVs in its dealers’ inventory.
—Mike Colias, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
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One of the smartest things the subgroup of three commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick did in concocting a 12-team CFP format was to grant automatic playoff berths to the top six conference champions (later five after the Pac-12’s collapse).—
Chris Vannini,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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Maybe the purposefully ambiguous coda was concocted to prove some sort of Rashomon-style truth-is-subjective point.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
9 Oct. 2025
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Nobel, who died in 1896, invented dynamite.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
9 Oct. 2025
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The nuclear age invented inspections and counting rules; the digital age can invent neutral testbeds.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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SpaceX’s luck appears to be turning, as the company notched a second straight successful test flight of the Starship launch system — the most powerful rocket ever constructed — on Monday evening.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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Exercises focused on how to find and purify water, fish and hunt for animals, forage for edible plants, find dry wood to build a fire and construct palm leaf-sapling lean-to shelters.—
Kit Bernardi,
USA Today,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Devise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devise. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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