ingenious
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It initiated the Jobsworth award for over-zealous bureaucrats and council officials, and Heap of the Week, in which failing domestic appliances would be destroyed on screen in a variety of ingenious ways.
From BBC β Sep. 30, 2026
As a platform, all it did was "host a forum where users could post creative and ingenious content within the scope of free speech," it told the court.
From Barron's β Sep. 27, 2026
Its panels of fiberglass-reinforced polymer are ingenious, significantly lightening the weight of a daringly cantilevered structure near the San Andreas fault in the Exposition Park neighborhood of South L.A.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 16, 2026
I have seen genuinely funny and ingenious A.I.-produced shorts on my feeds, many of them likely helmed with a fraction of the compute and app deployment needed at Fairground.
From Slate β Aug. 16, 2026
Alone in his freezing cell, Stockdale communicated with the other Americans using an ingenious “tap code.”
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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