ingenuity

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This is not wrong, but it may leave readers struggling to keep up with the author’s ingenuity, even as they try to keep straight all Mr. Sheehan’s sources from the ancient, medieval and modern eras.

From The Wall Street Journal

The authors of the analysis decried a lack of articles on topics such as ingenuity in the U.S., why Americans have won many Nobel Prizes or landed people on the moon.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sure, you need some ingenuity and some luck, and that five-year plan you’ve sketched out is adorable, but what you really need is an organization that runs more capably than an eighth grade carwash.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the end, a team of vet staff helped using a combination of stealth, ingenuity and a great deal of food to capture all three.

From BBC

In the U.S., true, citizen ingenuity did conjure new wealth from holes in the ground via fracking.

From The Wall Street Journal