inventive
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If American music in 1976 represented a collective, inquisitive, inventive American spirit of discovery, the semiquincentennial in the age of social media has become more about the individual identity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
It’s only ironic that the film’s story doesn’t have the same inventive, thoughtful scope, only to avoid alienating anyone watching the movie on their iPad.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
It appears that these inventive students took "soc" from the middle of the word "association" and added "-er," producing "soccer".
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
But overall, it’s an inventive conceit for a scavenger hunt that prompts Felix and Marigold to re-examine their surroundings, recording the sounds of summer as they go.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
A vast and inventive organization of living matter survives by seeming to have lost.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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The Ingenious Lexicon of Invention
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