ingenious

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Mr. Polito thereby gives us a poet who isn’t “just a blazing, mercurial, ingenious reviser of his own words and melodies but also a conscious, sly, artist.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

But, Melendez-Badillo says, he's also a colonial subject -- a reality explored on "Debi Tirar Mas Fotos," which features an ingenious melange of traditional sounds including salsa, bomba and plena, with infusions of reggaeton.

From Barron's • Jan. 31, 2026

His coda here is ingenious: Having just played Bacharach’s end title theme from the 1966 British film, he caps it off with the main title theme composed by Sonny Rollins.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026

The ingenious new twist changes the dynamic of the civilian series and marks the most significant format change since the show's launch in 2022.

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2026

He built ingenious training devices out of whatever was lying around, brewed up homemade liniments, prepared his horses in exactly the way they said he shouldn’t.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand