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
The adoption of this ingenious device to avoid compliance with unnatural obligations, affords an instance of the singular duplicity into which the subtilty of pious craft may betray human nature.
From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger
