ingenious
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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
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
Succulents in particular thrive in this unforgiving landscape using ingenious strategies to survive, from water storage to light reflection.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026
Byrne, the ingenious Talking Heads co-founder, conceived the show and wrote the music and lyrics.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026
She shows him the transmitter in the attic: its double battery, its old-fashioned electrophone, the hand-machined antenna that can be raised and lowered along the chimney by an ingenious system of levers.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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