devised
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But meanwhile he devised an extraordinarily ingenious system for getting his information out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Open Dialogue was first devised in the 1980s in Finland.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Working with Venn, Woolley and Woodley, Zucker devised the show to include a rotating cast of clowns, and comedic performers from around the world, including L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
When the Secret Service devised a plan to transport Bill Clinton from India to Pakistan in 2000, it was similar to the plan that Trump employed on July 8.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
In this they are quite unlike testimonies, which degrade as they pass from ear to ear in an endless game of Chinese whispers; eighteenth-century probability theorists actually devised formulae for calculating this rate of degradation.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
