devised

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One of best-known of those models is named for the three Federal Reserve economists who devised it: Kathryn Holston, Thomas Laubach and John Williams.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

U.S. special operations forces have devised plans for seizing the nuclear weapons, facilities, and materials of many hostile or turbulent countries.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

Over subsequent years, working mainly through the CSJ, the think tank he founded, Duncan Smith devised a system that he believed would not just simplify the benefits system but, crucially, make work pay.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Meanwhile figures such as Albert H. Munsell, a painter-turned-color-theorist, devised systems that mapped color by hue, value and chroma in an effort to translate perception into measurable terms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

She could have built her own hut to shelter from the rain and devised fishing lines to satisfy her need for meat.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer