devise
verb (used with object)
to contrive, plan, or elaborate; invent from existing principles or ideas.
am devising
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present progressiveof devise (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I am devising all sorts of things in my mind, and am in a state of energetic restlessness incomprehensible to the calm philosophers of Dorsetshire.
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 by Mamie Dickens
I am not the man who enslaved them; they are indebted to Englishmen for that favor; nevertheless I am devising means for manumitting many of them, and for cutting off the entail of slavery.
From A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia by Benjamin Griffith Brawley
Nevertheless I am devising means for manumitting many of them, and for cutting off the entail of slavery.
From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
