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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are hard to devise" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing ideas, plans, or solutions that are difficult to create or formulate.
Example: "Innovative strategies for sustainable development are hard to devise, but they are essential for our future."
Alternatives: "are difficult to create" or "are challenging to formulate".
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Unfortunately, public-key encryption schemes that are resilient against CCAs are hard to devise.
Pay structures are hard to devise when middle managers in rich-world subsidiaries expect to earn more than their seniors in head office.The future is MittalicBut the new boys have often leapt these hurdles impressively.
Hammond said such attacks have been rare not because bombs are hard to devise, but because air-safety practices have made it difficult to smuggle them on board.
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That wouldn't be hard to devise.
So it is hard to devise accurate models.
It would be hard to devise a more polluting business.
It would be hard to devise a more wasteful, damaging, unsustainable system.
It would be hard to devise a surer formula for economic catastrophe.
In particular, it has been hard to devise projects for management majors.
A fairer and more humane system of entry would not be hard to devise.
It's hard to devise a smart strategy – but it's ten times harder to get people to execute on that strategy.
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