ingenious
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And it turns out there’s an ingenious, inexpensive little invention that combines the pacifier with the medicine syringe.
From Slate • May 17, 2026
Despite garnering an Oscar nomination for Streep and an ingenious bit at that year’s ceremony, “The Devil Wears Prada” didn’t have the immediate cultural cache of something like its equally memeable predecessor, “Mean Girls.”
From Salon • Apr. 20, 2026
“They have come up with an ingenious way to create mayhem.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Succulents in particular thrive in this unforgiving landscape using ingenious strategies to survive, from water storage to light reflection.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026
For several days he had been home with the flu and was in bed when he heard that Crick and I had thought up an ingenious DNA structure which might be important to biology.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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