devising

verb

present participle of devise
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 But over the course of the next week, Nakase will be devising a plan to stop Reese. — Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 25 June 2026 To lower these risks, engineers are devising new ways to make wind turbines more visible and avoidable. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 May 2026 Working with industry qubits Imec’s genius is not in devising a new kind of qubit but in using one that’s the easiest to scale. — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 26 May 2026 States are getting creative in devising how the money will be collected either through taxation or voluntary donations by state residents. — Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 Those ping-pong balls are then placed in a plastic drum designed by Smartplay International, a company that specializes in devising lottery machines. — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 11 May 2026 Counties across the state have been pondering this crisis and devising solutions that can be accomplished in partnership with our state leaders — because this crisis is unquestionably our shared responsibility to solve. — Monica Montgomery Steppe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2026 Rue frantically offered to help get Alamo's money back, calling Faye (Chloe Cherry) up on the phone and devising a plan to get a safe key from Wayne (Toby Wallace). — Erin Jensen, USA Today, 18 May 2026 However, Solskjaer had spent that off-season devising how United would play with Sancho in an attacking unit alongside Marcus Rashford, Mason Greenwood, Edinson Cavani, Anthony Martial and Dan James, with the likes of Bruno Fernandes just behind. — Chris McKenna, New York Times, 11 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for devising
  1. concocting
  2. constructing
  3. inventing
  4. designing
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  • And she’s spent a decade scaling her brand into an industry disrupter; Ellsworth began concocting prebiotic drinks in 2015, founding her business just one year later.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 11 May 2026
  • According to the report, workers illegally pocketed between $20,000 and more than $41,000 in Paycheck Protection Program loans from a massive federal COVID-19 pandemic relief effort – some by concocting companies that didn't exist to pocket federal assistance funds.
    — Chris Tye, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
Definition of concocting
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  • The project included replacing sections of the penstock, installing new vent piping and constructing a new concrete thrust block.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 3 July 2026
  • Success will depend less on constructing facilities than on securing long-term buyers, trusted regulators, technology transfer, and patient capital that can sustain long-term production.
    — Paul Adepoju, semafor.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of constructing
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  • Bell’s scheme, presented in a journal devoted to eugenics and geared toward optimizing dietary protein, would later resurface at another moment of food anxiety, when Walter Voegtlin was inventing the Paleo diet in the 1970s.
    — David Merritt Johns, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026
  • Join the team inventing impactful AI solutions to shape the future of finance.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2026
Definition of inventing
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  • Barkitecture is the practice of designing homes so pet features are built into the architecture and finishes rather than tacked on as afterthoughts.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 8 July 2026
  • The work extends beyond cable routing and includes designing an electrical architecture that can support the aircraft’s size, operational demands, and future manufacturing requirements.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 July 2026
Definition of designing

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