devise
Example Sentences
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Almost anything might happen, but Might Futurists have devised clever ways to help us control all that unknowability.
She brought the product over during one of their last visits — a Band-Aid solution that she devised because her client was having trouble bathing herself.
From Los Angeles Times
In popular usage, it assumes the thing signified must be false, whereas people do conspire, and it is reasonable to devise theories about their schemes.
Most ingenious of all are the soap bubbles, devised by Mr. Forman, an MIT doctoral student, that drift around the stage as whirling snow.
The official was reported to have been involved in devising Japan's security policy.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
