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He spent much of the weekend holed up in Wilkinson’s Washington offices, where lawyers took turns role-playing as the judge and peppering lawyers with the toughest questions they could devise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

But studies show AI text detectors are often unreliable, generating false positives that can erode trust between instructors and students and forcing teachers to devise innovative methods to detect cheating and evaluate assignments.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Rantzen also found time to devise a new talent series, The Big Time, which launched the career of singer Sheena Easton.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

So I try to devise things that I think will amuse him.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

I try to devise some way to help her.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

Moreton devises trades by feeding reams of weather data and historical prices into machine-learning models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

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 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

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

An email from MeritServus in August 2005 to Abramovich's Russian associates said a plan had been devised after a meeting with Deloitte.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Elements Gehry devised to set it apart are already visible, as construction on the $337-million addition to the Colburn School of Performing Arts reveals details the architect conceived years ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Locked in a cat-and-mouse struggle, biology professor Timothy Paustian devised novel ways to catch students turning in chatbot-generated assignments.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Home Depot devised a strategy of hiring former professional tradespeople en masse—carpenters, plumbers, electricians—to staff stores as their salespeople.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The three devised what they called a “disassembly strategy”—or, out of earshot of Tom White, “the post-Tom plan.”

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

A juicy plot-thickener here: The three credit bureaus created and own VantageScore, devising it as a way to pay less for credit scores.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

If you weren’t aware of SpaceX’s role, you might wonder if colleges and universities had become better at devising market-beating strategies.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

Councils and mayors will play a leading role in devising local solutions with the areas with the biggest problem receiving the most support.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

It is, of course, the responsibility of every butler to devote his utmost care in the devising of a staff plan.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro