as in concocted
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination
she quickly devised a new scheme when the first one failed
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Recent Examples of devised
There’s everything from herbals like rhubarb and nettle to green teas and Fortnum’s own signature blends, like Wedding Breakfast or Jubilee, devised in honor of the Queen’s Diamond celebrations in 2012.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 June 2026
In addition to removing the commission’s direct authority over the chief job, Houston — who devised his proposal with Council President Kevin Jenkins — sought to eliminate a selection panel that appoints four of the commission’s members, allowing the council to handpick them instead.
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Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
24 June 2026
One of the easiest ways for an AI maker to guide an LLM in mental health chats is to use a system-wide prompt devised by the AI maker.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Now, a team of Chinese researchers has devised a solution for this problem.
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Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
21 June 2026
Some reports describe a strategy devised by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council in which every American obligation is to be matched by an Iranian step, each taken only after Washington has verifiably met its own commitments.
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Hamidreza Azizi,
Time,
19 June 2026
Security firm Varonis devised an exploit chain that was able to catapult over these guardrails.
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Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
16 June 2026
The researchers were Stanford psychologists carrying out an experiment on impulse control devised by Walter Mischel.
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Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
16 June 2026
Investigators said Alvarez devised the tier system.
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Sarah N. Lynch,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 June 2026
In addition to removing the commission’s direct authority over the chief job, Houston — who devised his proposal with Council President Kevin Jenkins — sought to eliminate a selection panel that appoints four of the commission’s members, allowing the council to handpick them instead.
—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
24 June 2026
One of the easiest ways for an AI maker to guide an LLM in mental health chats is to use a system-wide prompt devised by the AI maker.
—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Now, a team of Chinese researchers has devised a solution for this problem.
—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
21 June 2026
Some reports describe a strategy devised by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council in which every American obligation is to be matched by an Iranian step, each taken only after Washington has verifiably met its own commitments.
—
Hamidreza Azizi,
Time,
19 June 2026
Security firm Varonis devised an exploit chain that was able to catapult over these guardrails.
—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
16 June 2026
The researchers were Stanford psychologists carrying out an experiment on impulse control devised by Walter Mischel.
—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
16 June 2026
Investigators said Alvarez devised the tier system.
—
Sarah N. Lynch,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for devised
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In the one that opens the film, Forky (Tony Hale), the googly-eyed spork, marries a plastic knife called Karen Beverly (Melissa Villaseñor), a name so perfectly unmelodious that only a kid, or an adult exceptionally good at thinking like one, could have concocted it.
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Every detail is accurate, though the picture as a whole is an invention, concocted from multiple views, locations, and studies.
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Originalism is a terrific theory for Supreme Court dissents in which some justice complains that the court has invented new constitutional rights.
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So Nima Arkani-Hamed and Jaroslav Trnka invented/discovered the amplituhedron as the answer to this question.
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Ferrari said the fire is complex because the building is a freezer constructed with insulated materials.
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The seven-story office building, constructed to look exactly like a Longaberger Basket (just REALLY BIG), has been a novelty along Route 16, and now the current owners have put it on the market.
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Lauzon also serves as a community engagement manager and designed the project to give emerging and underrepresented artists a place to sell their work without financial barriers.
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With a range of 50 to 300 kilometers, the drones, all made in Ukraine, are designed to throttle the Russian army’s logistics – adding a new dimension of strikes to Ukraine’s strategy as the war grinds through its fifth year.
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