Brand
Device
Device noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Part Spyro the Dragon reboot (another one), part brand new franchise, Skylanders took a radical new approach: The games come with a device called a "portal," plus three toys.
Source: Video Game / Skylanders -
For example, during the war the Iranians of Tehran used the device to forcibly convert Muslims and non-Muslims to their brand of Shiite fundamentalism.
Source: Brainwashed - In the Christmas Episode, Santa Claus pulls off a beautiful Batman Gambit, delivering a device to Doofenshmirtz that would enable him to brand all of Danville as Naughty, while at the same time sending Perry the Platypus a CD with a note sharp enough to shatter said device.
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