deviser

• “But it has always amused me that Professor Tim Jackson, the deviser of MDP, found that 1976 was the peak year for quality of life in Britain.”

  The Guardian: Big society or no, don't get distracted at the cash machine

• “These transcripts of the 30 "best" selected by the programme's deviser and producer for 34 years run the gamut from the farceur Ben Travers, who saw WG Grace play and was in Australia during England's 1928-29 tour when Don Bradman made his Test debut, to Lily Allen, whose interest in the game was sparked by the 2005 Ashes.”

  The Guardian: The Best Views from the Boundary – Test Match Special's Greatest Interviews

• “The interpretation may or may not be what the deviser intended.”

  Attached to Strings

• “She might have ended up the deviser of merely fascinating stories, gizmos and thingamajigs that brought off-kilter delight.”

  The Huffington Post: New York Review: The Collected Stories Of Lydia Davis

• “Medicine (1991) - Alan Kligerman, deviser of digestive deliverance, vanquisher of vapor, and inventor of Beano, for his pioneering work with anti-gas liquids that prevent bloat, gassiness, discomfort and embarrassment.”

  Celebrating Silly Science Since 1991

• “Probably the most widely used tool for measuring subjective individual differences in imagery, made available by its deviser, David Marks (1973, 1999).”

  Fictionaut: His Name Was Do Re Mi

• ““What means this?” she said; “Douglas, why does the first deviser and bold executor of the happy scheme for our freedom, shun the company of his fellow-nobles, and of the Sovereign whom he has obliged?””

  The Abbot

• “Gatling was the prototypical Yankee tinkerer, a self-educated deviser of farm implements, including a mechanical planter that fed seeds from a hopper.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Point and Shoot

• “More philosopher than deviser of intricate characters or plots, Mr. Le Clézio is like a post-Darwin Rousseau, decrying the ruination of indigenous cultures around the world, often through the eyes of a child.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Nobel Undertaking:

• “No doubt, the government and the deviser of the model would find this all too embarrasing.”

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