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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a device for the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the purpose or function of a device in relation to a specific task or application.
Example: "The engineer designed a device for the measurement of air quality in urban areas."
Alternatives: "an instrument for the" or "a tool for the".
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Representative institutions are themselves a device for the resolution of conflict.
One difference might be that modern celebrity is a device for the accumulation of power and money.
They speak of installing democracy as easily as if it were a device for the living room.
Organisation was a device for the institutionalisation of occupational difference and protecting market advantage.
She's the figure who exists purely as a device for the hosts to make a string of uncomfortable innuendoes about women.
The simstim is a device for the novelist too, of course, for we are thereby given access to another character's experiences.
It's a device for the director, Danny Boyle, to show inequality up close, to range through Mumbai society — high, low, middle.
At the moment, I don't even think of my phone as a phone any more, but just a device for the deliverance of horrors.
It is proposed a device for the study of the real-time aggregation of white thrombi in whole blood.
We developed a device for the treatment of Ficat and Arlet stage II and III osteonecrosis of the femoral head.
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