Devise
Common collocations
| people | devise people | elaborate people |
Both words in one sentence
- The more elaborate forms of death you devise will require yet more elaborate contraptions to pull them off.
- The season finale ends with Jake being fired from the police, tossing his tie away and telling the captain to shove it... as part of an elaborate ruse the captain himself helped devise, showing how they've come to work together.
Source: Book Ends / Live-Action TV - Scenery Porn, Technology Porn and all the elaborate and detailed visual effects they could devise ensued; episodes like "Swarm" and "Rain of Terror" were rather obviously written around a fancy new trick the techies had come up with, but the results did look pretty damn cool.
Source: Shoot the Money
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Elaborate and Devise. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/devise/elaborate
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