ingenious device
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This ingenious device diverts the clean water that refills our toilet tanks every time we flush into a small faucet that automatically invites you to wash your hands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
This ingenious device allows the reader time and visual space, making manifest the moment of stillness after a theoretical bomb has dropped.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2020
Rather than a racist caricature, Ali G was an ingenious device for revealing racism.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2015
Starr’s “All Starr Band” of rotating musicians, an ingenious device to keep an active live career, is already more than a quarter-century old.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 13, 2015
In these desperate circumstances a bright thought struck him; he would, by a bold and ingenious device, give the tapu the slip.
From Old New Zealand A Tale of the Good Old Times; and A History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 by Maori, A Pakeha
