devised
Example Sentences
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It was the right strategic move, helping the Soviets pin down Nazi divisions in the east while the Brits and Americans devised a plan of attack in the west.
But lured by a fake advert for a charity job in Africa devised by reporters seeking to confront him, he was filmed in Brussels in 2010 refusing to answer questions about his past.
From BBC
Little wonder psychotherapist Philippa Perry once joked that the whole bucket-list thing must have been devised “as a brilliant PR stunt by somebody who was selling swimming with dolphins.”
From MarketWatch
Almost anything might happen, but Might Futurists have devised clever ways to help us control all that unknowability.
She brought the product over during one of their last visits — a Band-Aid solution that she devised because her client was having trouble bathing herself.
From Los Angeles Times
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