DEVICES Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

devices

noun

plural of device

as in tendency

a habitual attraction to some activity or thing left to her own devices she'd eat at a fast-food restaurant every night of the week

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Recent Examples of devices At the start of the year, China removed a three-decade-old tax exemption on contraceptive drugs and devices. —

Sean Nevin, NBC news, 24 Apr. 2026 The suit alleged City Creek failed to reposition her every two hours in bed or her wheelchair, which is the clinical standard for people at risk of bedsores, and to promptly order devices to protect her skin. —

Jordan Rau, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026 Cities across the metro have looked at ways to make riding e-bikes and e-scooters safer following a wave of crashes involving the devices. —

Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 23 Apr. 2026 Prosecutors said that defense attorneys could view the data at a clean computer in the justice center, and that there are an additional 20 to 30 terabytes of raw data across various devices that the district attorney’s office is attempting to transfer onto drives for the singer’s defense team. —

Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026 Moreover, the technology could support the creation of ultra-small circuits for Internet of Things (IoT) devices and highly precise bioelectronics suitable for human or animal implants. —

Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Apr. 2026 In some cases, people with spasmodic dysphonia may use communication aids or devices, such as those that translate text to speech. —

Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026 Unsettlingly directed by Donald Cammell, this adaptation of Dean Koontz’s 1973 novel of the same name imagines a smart home years before Nest, Ring, Roomba, and other devices become commonplace. —

Keith Phipps, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2026 Teams of fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders will test their devices Saturday, and middle-schoolers and high school students will be in the spotlight Sunday. —

Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026

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Kormákur is an Icelandic filmmaker whose breakout was the 2006 crime drama Jar City and who has a tendency to bounce around both genres and continents.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2026
In 2024, Julie Aitken Schermer, a psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, published a paper that showed drivers who modified their exhaust systems to be louder were more likely to have psychopathic and sadist tendencies.

— Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Apr. 2026