ingenious
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Many hailed it as an ingenious idea that could be scaled up to create thousands of jobs in a country where urban unemployment has consistently been higher than 5% with millions unable to find work.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
And it turns out there’s an ingenious, inexpensive little invention that combines the pacifier with the medicine syringe.
From Slate • May 17, 2026
Minus the flash, the neon, the tailoring and the quipping, “LifeHack” is a kind of “Ocean’s Eleven” for Gen Z: a breathless, ingenious caper that moves at about 200 megabits per second.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 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
He kept his ingenious instrument in a slim leather case and carried it in his pocket wherever he went.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
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