ingenious
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Behind the seeming anarchy of Monty Python, Terry Jones played the part of ingenious ringmaster.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Supporters see the loans as an ingenious way to reconnect hospitals with the people they serve.
From Barron's • Feb. 13, 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
Some of Somaliland’s solutions are ingenious, as I saw in a reporting trip for Tablet magazine during the country’s 2021 parliamentary elections.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2026
It sounds macabre, but when Mother realized that after she’s dead, she won’t be able to tell me what to wear anymore, she came up with this ingenious postmortem system.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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