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devise

[dih-vahyz] / dɪˈvaɪz /


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Devise a strategy to capitalize on the big trend you see.

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

Kalen DeBoer and his staff, who like to say, ‘Job’s not done,’ have one last job: Devise a game plan to beat Michigan.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 2024

“The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from children, hell-bound as ourselves go into oblivion. There is nothing else.”

From Washington Times • Jan. 11, 2019

Devise an arrangement of mirrors allowing you to see the back of your head.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Devise but how you’ll use him when he comes, And let us two devise to bring him thither.

From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge




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