ingenious
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Instead, “From the Shadows” is an ingenious microcosm, focused on the “candlelight” nocturnes of 1765 to 1773, when Wright was present at the creation of our age of science and spectacle.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026
Supporters see the loans as an ingenious way to reconnect hospitals with the people they serve.
From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026
Mr. Polito thereby gives us a poet who isn’t “just a blazing, mercurial, ingenious reviser of his own words and melodies but also a conscious, sly, artist.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
The ingenious new twist changes the dynamic of the civilian series and marks the most significant format change since the show's launch in 2022.
From BBC • Jan. 1, 2026
One of the things that Klin wanted to discover, in talking to Peter, was how someone with his condition makes sense of the world, so he and his colleagues devised an ingenious experiment.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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