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
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
Mr. Polito thereby gives us a poet who isn’t “just a blazing, mercurial, ingenious reviser of his own words and melodies but also a conscious, sly, artist.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
The men were soaking wet all the time and had to become ingenious in finding ways to keep their possessions dry.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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