devise
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A group of the enslaved Athenians devise a plan to stage “Medea” and “The Trojan Women,” a pair of tragedies by Euripides that deal with vengeance and the costs of war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Rantzen also found time to devise a new talent series, The Big Time, which launched the career of singer Sheena Easton.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
A former Trump administration official told ProPublica the group’s purpose was to strengthen the United States’ strategic position in Greenland and devise policies to bring the two closer.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
We queried experts across sports medicine, personal training and physical therapy to devise easy routines comprising simple exercises you can do at home to test and train your balance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
I devise myself a peso plan, for the trip in general—food and stuff—but especially for my feet.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
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Moreton devises trades by feeding reams of weather data and historical prices into machine-learning models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Rose Njeri was detained on Friday after police raided her home in the capital, Nairobi, and seized electronic devises, activists said.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2025
Afterward, just before mandatory lights out, Gi-hun devises a plan.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2024
When other teachers begin to complain about having valuable items stolen in their lounge, she devises a trap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2023
He had joined the ranks of those ‘overcome with the incredible delight conceived of their own devises and inventions’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Elements Gehry devised to set it apart are already visible, as construction on the $337-million addition to the Colburn School of Performing Arts reveals details the architect conceived years ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Locked in a cat-and-mouse struggle, biology professor Timothy Paustian devised novel ways to catch students turning in chatbot-generated assignments.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Rantzen also devised and presented Hearts of Gold, a programme that celebrated previously unknown people who had been responsible for good deeds.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
He devised policy recommendations “for Ukraine’s postwar reconstruction” as a visiting fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, his LinkedIn profile says.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
Like many other amateur code breakers, he challenged her to break some messages in a new system that he himself had devised.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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Defenders have to test and install the software patches, while hackers study the patches as a guide to find new vulnerabilities, looking to see what has changed and then devising ways of attacking those areas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
After polling officials in 90 Florida cities and counties, researchers said the officials were already devising backup plans to put in effect if the amendment passes.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Internal testing determined that the forthcoming model, called Astra, is capable of devising and executing novel hacks against difficult targets with only limited human input, OpenAI said Tuesday in a blog post.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Inspired by the sensibility of a tantalizingly idiosyncratic writer-performer, the play offered Greenspan the opportunity to star in a Greenspan-esque work not of his own devising.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
The intended restricted uses of early writing provided a positive disincentive for devising less ambiguous writing systems.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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