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noun

devices

a person's own inclinations and ways of acting when unsupervised

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Six example sentences with devices, each labelled with its topic.

  • Left to their own devices for an hour, the children built a fort and negotiated its rules without any adult stepping in.

    Psychology

  • The tour ends at noon and leaves you to your own devices, which is when the town actually becomes interesting.

    Travel

  • Left to his own devices over a quiet August, the intern rewrote the billing system nobody had dared touch for years.

    Startups

  • Left to their own devices in sandbox mode, players built a working calculator out of switches and levers.

    Gaming

  • Left to his own devices over the summer, the rookie rebuilt his jump shot with a college coach.

    Basketball

  • Left to her own devices, the trainee chef adds chili to everything, so the head chef checks each pot.

    Cooking

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