Example Sentences

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Otherwise, our society and our morality will devolve to something nobody, but a handful wanted.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2025

According to the new law, Reedy Creek’s functions will devolve to Orange and neighboring Osceola counties.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2022

Maybe it will devolve into a hand sanitizer and face mask catalog.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2020

The government is planning a reorganisation of local government in England, with more directly-elected mayors, more unitary authorities and stronger town and parish councils, which it says will devolve power to local people.

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2020

That labor, also, I fear, will devolve upon me.

From Nuts for Future Historians to Crack by Smith, Horace Wemyss