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
Certainly the ingenious device lightened the task of surveillance, for the wood-cutters, however exasperated, could not turn upon their guards until they had forced out the staples with their axes.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert
