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Ingenious comes from a Latin word meaning what?

ingenious

[in-jeen-yuhs] / ΙͺnˈdΚ’in jΙ™s /


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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 ● 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 ● 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 ● 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 ● 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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