ingenious device
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This ingenious device diverts the clean water that refills our toilet tanks every time we flush into a small faucet that automatically invites you to wash your hands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
This ingenious device allows the reader time and visual space, making manifest the moment of stillness after a theoretical bomb has dropped.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2020
Rather than a racist caricature, Ali G was an ingenious device for revealing racism.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2015
Starr’s “All Starr Band” of rotating musicians, an ingenious device to keep an active live career, is already more than a quarter-century old.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 13, 2015
By this ingenious device, the modern infant, instead of being whipped into reading, is beguiled into it pleasantly and imperceptibly, and makes his progress by a philosophical law.
From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Charles Loring Brace
