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
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.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 16 June 2026
Investigators said Alvarez devised the tier system.
—Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 16 June 2026
Chinese military planners have reportedly devised a plan to target US carriers in places like Guam.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 13 June 2026
Arasheben devised a mechanism allowing the face to switch colors.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
In this case, the team devised a way to directly merge the mechanophores as cross-links into common polymers.
—Shirl Leigh
june 10, New Atlas, 10 June 2026
The team’s Mediterranean Programme was devised in response to the exponential risk of extinction to the sea’s nearly 80 species of shark and ray.
—Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 9 June 2026
For this, Merighi found two Italian academics, Francesco Bof and Sergio Venturini, who devised a system to go from the events on the pitch to a final score for each player at the end of every game.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 2 June 2026
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
Chinese military planners have reportedly devised a plan to target US carriers in places like Guam.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 13 June 2026
Arasheben devised a mechanism allowing the face to switch colors.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
In this case, the team devised a way to directly merge the mechanophores as cross-links into common polymers.
—Shirl Leigh
june 10, New Atlas, 10 June 2026
The team’s Mediterranean Programme was devised in response to the exponential risk of extinction to the sea’s nearly 80 species of shark and ray.
—Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 9 June 2026
For this, Merighi found two Italian academics, Francesco Bof and Sergio Venturini, who devised a system to go from the events on the pitch to a final score for each player at the end of every game.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 2 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.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
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Every detail is accurate, though the picture as a whole is an invention, concocted from multiple views, locations, and studies.—
Susan Tallman,
The Atlantic,
13 June 2026
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Fermentation provided a way to preserve foods thousands of years before refrigeration was invented, and it was used to impart unique flavors and textures.—
Anahad O’Connor,
Washington Post,
17 June 2026
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Remember Bonnie, the adorable five-year-old who inherited Andy’s old toys and, in a stroke of brilliance, invented one of her own by gluing a pair of googly eyes onto a cheap white spork?—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
16 June 2026
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Ferrari said the fire is complex because the building is a freezer constructed with insulated materials.—
Tracy Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
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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.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
19 June 2026
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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.—
Ray Campos,
CBS News,
20 June 2026
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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.—
Gianluca Mezzofiore,
CNN Money,
20 June 2026
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