ingenious

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“Scary Movie’s” one genuinely ingenious move is to resurrect actors without shame.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Many hailed it as an ingenious idea that could be scaled up to create thousands of jobs in a country where urban unemployment has consistently been higher than 5% with millions unable to find work.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

And it turns out there’s an ingenious, inexpensive little invention that combines the pacifier with the medicine syringe.

From Slate • May 17, 2026

Despite garnering an Oscar nomination for Streep and an ingenious bit at that year’s ceremony, “The Devil Wears Prada” didn’t have the immediate cultural cache of something like its equally memeable predecessor, “Mean Girls.”

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2026

Karhidish psychologists, though lacking mindspeech and thus like, blind surgeons, were ingenious with drugs, hypnosis, spotshock, cryonic touch, and various mental therapies; I asked if these two psychopaths could not be cured.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin