as in devises
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination
cooked up a scheme to get out of doing the dishes
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Odysseus, the Ithacan warrior who is as celebrated for craftiness as Achilles is for brute strength, devises a clever ruse in which the Greeks place a giant wooden horse outside Troy’s walls and pretend to sail away.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
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Anime giant Crunchyroll has partnered with Luminopia, a digital health company that devises new treatments for significant neuro-visual disorders, for a new VR treatment for kids with lazy eye (amblyopia).—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Oct. 2025
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Lockjaw, obsessed with everything about Perfidia, concocts a reason to send authorities into the town where Bob and Willa are living.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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The department plans and constructs new freeways, additional lanes and other improvements in the Phoenix area as part of the Regional Transportation Plan for the Maricopa County region.—
Jose R. Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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And Dacus, with slow-burning lyricism and diary-fragment songwriting, constructs entire emotional geographies connected by faith, heartbreak, memory, and grief.—
Gerrick Kennedy,
Rolling Stone,
20 Oct. 2025
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Then unlimited human creativity invents new jobs that deliver more value overall, and living standards rise.—
Geoff Colvin,
Fortune,
23 Oct. 2025
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Every generation invents its own slang, and language evolves in ways most of us will never consciously perceive, Jones said.—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Cooks (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cooks%20%28up%29. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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