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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Haiti’s first was well constructed.
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Once the model is built, it can be used to take a scene constructed by artists and tweak it, making the physics look realistic — not by modeling the physics, but by guessing at them based on absorbing an incredibly large dataset of real-world footage.
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The Harwerths used the engagement photos for their save-the-date invitation designed to look like a Costco food-court menu and then served Costco cake at the wedding.
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Originally designed for athletes, the sporty staple has long since transcended its performance roots, becoming a fixture in the wardrobes of fashion people everywhere.
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