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ingenuity

[in-juh-noo-i-tee, -nyoo-] / ˌɪn dʒəˈnu ɪ ti, -ˈnju- /


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As police and protesters engage in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, social media savvy students are turning ingenuity into a form of resistance.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

The research team also acknowledged Chris Hewett, Byron Goode, and Joe McElveen of NC State's Instrument Shop for their ingenuity in manufacturing the components used in the experiments.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026

Rather, it shows how small-market clubs with enough creativity and ingenuity can win with limited resources by finding value in places others aren’t looking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

“Heart of the Beast” is an onslaught of danger and misery, alleviated only by the pleasure of watching James’ survival skills and ingenuity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

I put my own ingenuity to work, coming up with a dozen names from my reading, because, of course, I don’t want to give the sons any real Dominican names and get someone in trouble.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

The metal was made to look like painted wood, with jaunty bay windows and miniaturized versions of classic Williams ironwork on the outside, and space-saving ingenuities indoors.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022

Yet the celebration of digitization renders the driver completely invisible—even though it is their knowledge and ingenuities that allow the technologies to appear frictionless.

From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2020

Galleries and museums are filled with walk-on-by works that, whatever their ingenuities, are basically just variations on old models, wall-filling exercises in easy, comfortable beauty.

From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2019

This analysis was an easy one, because the song is straight fours and its ingenuities are easy to describe.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2014

With all these ingenuities, no one has yet contrived a really successful flying-machine.

From 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century by Henry Hartshorne




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