Devices
Devices noun - An inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices'.
Techniques and devices are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Techniques" instead a noun "Devices".
Techniques
Devices and techniques are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Devices" instead a noun "Techniques".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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The Medici Trilogy by Martin Woodhouse and Robert Ross portrays Leonardo da Vinci using several interesting techniques and devices, apparently later lost to history.
Source: Clock Punk - That is something that only happened in one place, once, in the history of the world (19th century Britain, which then exported the new devices and techniques they'd developed and started a cycle of device+technique research and development).
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For all the elaborate devices in the castle, the torture techniques are very primitive, dating back to the Dark Ages.
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