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
He is accused of devising the scheme using a contraband cell phone, from which authorities recovered several recordings of the Brooklyn native detailing the plot.
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Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 10 Mar. 2025
The usual path to devising generative AI consists of what is known as autoregressive LLMs, while the promising new avenue is referred to as diffusion LLMs (dLLMs).
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
As long as there are dollars in someone’s bank account, there are other people devising ways to siphon those dollars and claim them as their own.
—Roxana Popescu, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2025
But the rest of the league will also be devising ways to make life more difficult on the quarterback in his second season.
—Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 4 Mar. 2025
The chances of a giant space rock striking the Earth have decreased, but NASA and other space agencies are still devising a plan to obliterate it.
—Alexandra Koch, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2025
Instead, as alleged in the lawsuit, Wayfarer and its management chose to expend their efforts and resources devising a plan to retaliate and discredit those who dared to make the accusations in the first place.
—Christina Dugan Ramirez, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2025
There is a growing push on Madison Avenue to foil the increasing disdain the average TV viewer has for traditional commercials, by devising content that is as interesting or entertaining as the shows people like to watch and binge.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 12 Feb. 2025
That’s why most Super Bowl marketers start devising their plans months in advance.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025
Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 10 Mar. 2025
The usual path to devising generative AI consists of what is known as autoregressive LLMs, while the promising new avenue is referred to as diffusion LLMs (dLLMs).
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
As long as there are dollars in someone’s bank account, there are other people devising ways to siphon those dollars and claim them as their own.
—Roxana Popescu, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2025
But the rest of the league will also be devising ways to make life more difficult on the quarterback in his second season.
—Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 4 Mar. 2025
The chances of a giant space rock striking the Earth have decreased, but NASA and other space agencies are still devising a plan to obliterate it.
—Alexandra Koch, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2025
Instead, as alleged in the lawsuit, Wayfarer and its management chose to expend their efforts and resources devising a plan to retaliate and discredit those who dared to make the accusations in the first place.
—Christina Dugan Ramirez, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2025
There is a growing push on Madison Avenue to foil the increasing disdain the average TV viewer has for traditional commercials, by devising content that is as interesting or entertaining as the shows people like to watch and binge.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 12 Feb. 2025
That’s why most Super Bowl marketers start devising their plans months in advance.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for devising
inventing
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There has been quite a lot of progress lately in inventing brain-computer interfaces (BCI), also known as brain-machine interfaces (BMI).—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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All sixth graders from all nine schools in the Encinitas Union School District get to spend a week at the district’s Farm Lab taking part in Salad Wars, inventing their own organic salad dressing and competing against their classmates for the honor of The Golden Fork.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Devising.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devising. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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