devise
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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
A spirituality informed by pragmatism, so familiar to readers of Niebuhr, led him to devise the Christian realism that underpinned his vision of American global leadership.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Mr. Powell would have struggled to devise a credible case for a rate cut from these data.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
But the question of how we get there means everything, and all this straight-line script can devise in terms of motivation is to have characters give up creating fake drama.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
The three of them devise a game that involves kicking the ball through one doorway or the other, and we’re lucky it never lands in the slop bucket or the soup.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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