devise

Example Sentences

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It didn’t take him long to devise a solution.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

Europe on its own can neither devise nor implement a plan for the territory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

In the soundtrack of his youth, Walter Thompson-Hernández and his friends liked to devise a game of escape.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026

Elevating one internal candidate also could spark an exodus by the others, putting pressure on the board to devise ways to retain Disney’s accomplished runners-up.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026

If you were going to devise an experiment to measure the relative influences of nature versus nurture, you couldn’t come up with anything better than my life.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides