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February 28: An FAA audit gives Boeing 90 days to devise a plan to significantly upgrade its quality control processes.

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026

It would devise a plan "with its associations and in close co-operation with other confederations" to make sure this "cannot occur again"

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

LAUSD’s action to devise new limits in April spurred interest in the issue across the nation, said Jodi Carreon, who co-runs the California chapter of the Distraction-Free Schools Policy Project, a leader in the movement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

Gupta also says that scammers closely track people's online behaviour and use the information to select victims and devise scams that will get them to take the bait.

From BBC ● May 18, 2026

Among Leonardo’s many interests and accomplishments—in painting, sculpture, anatomy, geology, natural history, military and civil engineering—he had a great passion: to devise and fabricate a machine that could fly.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

Afterward, just before mandatory lights out, Gi-hun devises a plan.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2024

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

From BBC ● May 28, 2024

She devises a way to beam them better, and gets an answer back, though not the answer anyone would expect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

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

Entertainment outlet Variety, citing insiders, said Ellison had devised a five-year plan to move the company from California, starting with its Los Angeles headquarters.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

This may involve putting additional checks and balances in place that would make it impossible for such a plan to be devised and presented in this way again.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

It is a judge-made rule of caution that the justices devised themselves.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026

A Beverly Hills film producer whose credits include “Joker,” “Longlegs” and “Greyhound” has been indicted on federal fraud charges that allege he devised a scheme that defrauded investors of more than $100 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

A practical way to enter the trailer had never been devised, and now the Zeitouns didn’t need it.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

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

Independence required Americans to believe in the risky project of devising a new, republican constitution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Before the war, Khamenei reportedly tasked Larijani with devising a plan to ensure that the Islamic Republic would survive a major attack by Israel and the US, including the assassination of its leadership.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026

They grinned the way people who share a secret do, slyly, like they’d sat in that dim shoe shop all day not making shoes at all but devising secret plots.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini