devising

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By devising a tax-efficient and multifaceted distribution strategy.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 27, 2026

To execute a task that’s boring, frustrating or apparently meaningless, he suggests devising ways to make it more challenging—say, imposing an artificial deadline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026

The biggest challenge for IBM and the industry is devising a quantum computer that can maintain normal operations even in the presence of errors, a concept known as fault tolerance.

From Barron's • Dec. 10, 2025

Hahn, who served as co-curator of the exhibit, in a tour of the museum’s artifacts notes that Bushman was working on “The Mickey Mouse Club” around the time he was also devising plans for Disneyland.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025

There has also been a frequent reverse problem, of devising letters to represent “new” sounds present in the borrowing language but absent in the lending language.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond