devise
verb (used with object)
to contrive, plan, or elaborate; invent from existing principles or ideas.
are devising
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present progressiveof devise.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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Corporate customers are devising a plethora of money-saving uses for AI in areas like coding, drafting legal documents and expediting billing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025
Innovative researchers are devising healthier buildings, designing clinical trials with community involvement, and monitoring the air and water to empower people to protect themselves.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2023
Meanwhile, fishermen are devising their own methods to offset catch declines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023
To address the problem, an increasing number of municipal, county and state governments are devising plans to spend federal coronavirus pandemic relief funds to eliminate residents’ medical debt and ease those debt burdens.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
Among his chief occupations are devising methods of getting news and avoiding libel suits.
From Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School by Edwin L. Miller
