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ingenuity

[in-juh-noo-i-tee, -nyoo-] / ˌɪn dʒəˈnu ɪ ti, -ˈnju- /


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She was excited by the ingenuity of artists; as long as people aren’t charging for events, they don’t need permission.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

From the bustling labs of the Northeast to the remote deserts of the Southwest, American ingenuity can be found everywhere.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

"Stanford is the centre of ingenuity in the entire country and in the world," said Harry Kaplan, a graduate in the Management Science and Engineering programme.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

My recitation about the environmental ingenuity of enslaved people in the Underground Railroad was clearly jarring to many in the audience, perhaps even hostile to their understanding of Blackness.

From Salon Jun. 19, 2026

Rutherford’s discoveries launched a surge of ingenuity in physics.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The metal was made to look like painted wood, with jaunty bay windows and miniaturized versions of classic Williams ironwork on the outside, and space-saving ingenuities indoors.

From New York Times Jul. 14, 2022

Yet the celebration of digitization renders the driver completely invisible—even though it is their knowledge and ingenuities that allow the technologies to appear frictionless.

From Slate Dec. 28, 2020

Galleries and museums are filled with walk-on-by works that, whatever their ingenuities, are basically just variations on old models, wall-filling exercises in easy, comfortable beauty.

From New York Times Aug. 8, 2019

This analysis was an easy one, because the song is straight fours and its ingenuities are easy to describe.

From Slate Mar. 25, 2014

He possessed none of the little ingenuities by which boys sometimes secure a bit of pocket-money.

From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake




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