as in concocts
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 devises
Tiffany Bendayan, a chef and baker in Miami, devises different ways to make the table a space where her daughters—Emily and Sofia—feel comfortable sharing just about anything.
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Karen Cicero, Parents, 21 Dec. 2025
Odysseus, the Ithacan warrior who is as celebrated for craftiness as Achilles is for brute strength, devises a clever ruse in which the Greeks place a giant wooden horse outside Troy’s walls and pretend to sail away.
—Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
Anime giant Crunchyroll has partnered with Luminopia, a digital health company that devises new treatments for significant neuro-visual disorders, for a new VR treatment for kids with lazy eye (amblyopia).
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
No one wants to give up on Erica, especially Uhura, who devises a plan to send another shuttle through the wormhole to rescue Erica.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
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Executive pastry chef Jess Robertson, Ian’s wife, concocts desserts ranging from $4 oatmeal cream pies to $100 banana splits.—
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Lockjaw, obsessed with everything about Perfidia, concocts a reason to send authorities into the town where Bob and Willa are living.—
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Blending Sufi classics, absurdist dreams, careful mathematical calculations and lyrical narratives, Ismailov invents an ingenious transnational poetics of love and longing for the digital age.—
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Then unlimited human creativity invents new jobs that deliver more value overall, and living standards rise.—
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As Victor constructs his lab and assembles the Creature, the various stages of its creation are meticulously portrayed.—
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By shuffling these more personal images with his own photographs of their rooms—draperies, windows, unmade beds, a shower stall—Xu constructs a fascinating if confounding new reality, a stage set destined to be struck.—
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“Devises.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devises. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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