devise
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She also meets a scientist working to devise a simple diagnostic test that could help many women.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
Gupta also says that scammers closely track people's online behaviour and use the information to select victims and devise scams that will get them to take the bait.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
A more expensive fiasco would be hard to devise.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
A spirituality informed by pragmatism, so familiar to readers of Niebuhr, led him to devise the Christian realism that underpinned his vision of American global leadership.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 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
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