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

Sociopaths like Iago may be an empty shell of evil, but they can also be ingenious manipulators.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2026

Knowing he wouldn’t be able to pull that off twice, Smith tried his most ingenious move: hiding in plain sight.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand