devised
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Japanese cities are experiencing "cruelly hot days", a new meteorological term devised this year to warn people of intense heat above 40C, with heatstroke alerts issued across almost the whole country.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Law-student-turned-coxswain Maisie Dixon held a chain attached to the bank, a system devised to space out crews.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
The researchers devised a market-beating strategy for exploiting this discovery, buying those stocks that their LLM suggested would rise as the market fully discounted the pure news, and shorting stocks the model projected would fall.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 4, 2026
Arasheben devised a mechanism allowing the face to switch colors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
But Homo sapiens, whose body was adapted to living in the African savannah rather than in the lands of snow and ice, devised ingenious solutions.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
