The phrase "a device to explore" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a tool or instrument designed for the purpose of investigation or examination.
Example: "The scientists developed a device to explore the depths of the ocean and gather data on marine life."
Alternatives: "a tool for investigation" or "an instrument for exploration."
The smack on the head is merely a device to explore the discontents of middle age.
The show is brilliantly unexpected – the first episode provides a wonderful subversion of the friendship between a gay man and a straight woman – but the weed is simply a device to explore these disparate characters.
And it works very well as a narrative driver but, much more importantly I think, as a device to explore the many complexities about the first world war, at home and on the battlefields, from which mythologisers too readily turn away.
BioShock was set in the fictional city of Rapture, which was intended to be a dystopia, a device to explore the kind of philosophical arguments set out by authors like George Orwell and Ayn Rand, according to creative director Ken Levine.
Amacher et al.'s addition of a risk premium may be useful as a theoretical device to explore the impact of fire on a deterministic analysis.
Conceptually, Hetzel claims he wants to use fat-soap as a metaphorical device to explore the idea of turning guilt into a force for good.
One of our leading fiction reviewers uses a clever device to explore the role of fate in romance, and concludes that there is no such thing as the perfect man.______________________________________________Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for HimselfBy Ann Wroe.
Sure, it works, and it's a fun device to explore the new platform, but I couldn't live with it as a go-to tablet.
While the episode already had most of the necessary elements in place before Fox's request, the producers were able to add the musical theme as a "narrative device" to "explore Walter's feelings" in the aftermath of Peter's discovery and flight.
Its protagonist is Danny, a teenager suffering from insomnia, who uses an experimental device to explore his mind and discover the cause of his sleeplessness.
Schultz and Stabell (2004) use the contradiction of managing tacit knowledge as an analytical device to explore four discourses.
