as in concocting
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 devising
For 39 years, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act has required redistricting institutions to consider racial and ethnic minority representation when devising congressional districts.
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Sam D. Hayes, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
The problem in devising such a tax is defining what constitutes a robot.
—Zach Halaschak, The Washington Examiner, 10 Oct. 2025
The movie strives to apply logic, inviting laughs (which are not unwelcome in the tense genre), but ultimately succeeds by devising a formula where two threats — ghosts and serial killers — come calling.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
For OpenAI especially, devising new revenue streams is crucial.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
The two quickly built a rapport, and Preservation began sending ‘Nandez beats, eventually inviting him to New Orleans to hang out while devising the project’s sonic core and predominant themes.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
With final approval, the district will now form a seven-member architectural review committee that will be charged with devising design review guidelines for the area.
—Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 28 Sep. 2025
In devising the schedules, the conference office aimed for competitive balance, taking into account each team’s records from 2021-24 and using them to strategically place matchups.
—Seth Emerson, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2025
At the same time, the Justice Department is devising its own means to target anyone who opposes the President’s immigration policies.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2025
Sam D. Hayes, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
The problem in devising such a tax is defining what constitutes a robot.
—Zach Halaschak, The Washington Examiner, 10 Oct. 2025
The movie strives to apply logic, inviting laughs (which are not unwelcome in the tense genre), but ultimately succeeds by devising a formula where two threats — ghosts and serial killers — come calling.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
For OpenAI especially, devising new revenue streams is crucial.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
The two quickly built a rapport, and Preservation began sending ‘Nandez beats, eventually inviting him to New Orleans to hang out while devising the project’s sonic core and predominant themes.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
With final approval, the district will now form a seven-member architectural review committee that will be charged with devising design review guidelines for the area.
—Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 28 Sep. 2025
In devising the schedules, the conference office aimed for competitive balance, taking into account each team’s records from 2021-24 and using them to strategically place matchups.
—Seth Emerson, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2025
At the same time, the Justice Department is devising its own means to target anyone who opposes the President’s immigration policies.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for devising
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China has also been concocting a pretext for action.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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But in the late 1800s, food companies began concocting products that were wildly different from anything people could make themselves.—
Alice Callahan,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Microsoft is constructing a solar power plant in Portage County to put 250-megawatts back into the grid.—
Ricardo Torres,
jsonline.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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That estimate also doesn't include the cost of constructing a new facility in Houston to serve as the space shuttle's new home.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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But truths go ignored, the film argues, when everyone prefers inventing realities for themselves.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 2025
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By then, the preeminent fashion genius of the third quarter of the 20th century and the designer so often credited with inventing the modern woman’s wardrobe had handed prêt-à-porter over to his assistants, who clung as if by commandment to the house dogma of bourgeois Parisian elegance.—
Rob Haskell,
Vogue,
20 Oct. 2025
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Using fractional diffusion theory, the research deepens understanding of transient charging behaviors in complex materials, which is key to designing high-performance components used for advanced engineering electrochemical systems in general.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when there were not enough ventilators for the patients who needed them, a team at NASA JPL was charged with designing a ventilator that could be rapidly produced without taking parts away from the critical medical supply chain.—
Michele Raphael,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Devising.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devising. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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