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Discover LudwigThe phrase "own devices" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is usually used to refer to a situation in which a person is left to act or solve a problem without guidance or supervision. For example, "After I had finished the project, I was left to my own devices and had to figure out what to do next."
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Alec was left to his own devices.
You are left to your own devices.
Employees increasingly bring their own devices to work.
Left to their own devices, activists might pick unelectable zealots.
The agency cannot be left to its own devices.
Mr Bhatt says he was left to his own devices.
Could he not now be left to his own devices?
INTERESTING firms are rarely left to their own devices.
Could communism, left to its own devices, have reformed itself?
Congress, left to its own devices, won't get it done.
They used to be left entirely to their own devices.
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