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devise

[dih-vahyz] / dɪˈvaɪz /


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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

Jung, the Korea Stockholders’ Alliance head, still wants regulators to delist the single-stock leveraged ETFs and devise rescue measures for individual investors who suffered deep losses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 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

"Diet holds great promise for controlling the microbiome and its outputs. But to devise effective therapeutic interventions, we need to understand what aspects of the diet control which microbial outputs."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026

He meant to stop at the wedding on his way to New York and endeavor by every means which money and love could devise to atone somewhat for Edna’s incomprehensible action.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

He even devises a way to keep the goats corralled so that he doesn’t have to chase them down or use up his precious bullets and gunpowder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

He oversees training, takes charge of set-piece routines and devises certain patterns of play.

From BBC ● May 28, 2024

He said he has no problem sharing the carries with the Jets in whatever role coordinator Nathaniel Hackett devises for him in his offense.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2023

Often, junk science originates when an individual devises a forensic technique based on minimal or narrow experience and data.

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2023

Down on the ground, he devises spectacles for the duke.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

Costume designer Colleen Atwood devised the ensemble, while Ed Cubberly created the famous fiberglass muzzle, deliberately leaving it uncoated to evoke the look of dried, taut skin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The term originates in the 1990s, but its spirit goes further back—at least to British computer scientist Alan Turing, who devised what became known as the Turing test.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

To bridge that gap, the sport's governing body has devised a new competition.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

"In this war, solutions devised during the Cold War will not work, nor will ideas developed over the past decade prove effective," he said, referring to naming-and-shaming tactics as one example.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

But these categories, originally devised by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in the mid-1700s, were purely descriptive, not mechanistic.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

In the 1700s the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus set about devising a system for arranging species through a two-part system we still use today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

These credentials are meant to help workers prove they have skills like devising effective prompts or using AI for business strategy.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 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

It’s getting as much mileage as it can out of Murrell’s shopping spree, devising ever more elaborate graphics for readers to keep tabs on what Murrell bought with the stolen money.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment, which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking




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