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Ingenious comes from a Latin word meaning what?

ingenious

[in-jeen-yuhs] / ΙͺnˈdΚ’in jΙ™s /


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My solution was so ingenious that I fired up ChatGPT and asked it to lay out all the evidence in support of my plan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

But instead of the story being about Guehi being played out of position, the former Crystal Palace skipper scored to help switch the narrative to it being an ingenious move from the new manager.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

"We came up with a somewhat ingenious set of methods to get at something very difficult to analyze in the fossil record."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

Riw Rakkulchon’s ingenious set, suggestive of both a barn and a cabinet of orchestral wonders, allows “Mexodus” to function simultaneously as a suspenseful dramatic yarn and a jam session.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

It contained an ingenious theory by the theoretician F. C. Frank on how crystals grow.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson




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