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Ingenious comes from a Latin word meaning what?

ingenious

[in-jeen-yuhs] / ΙͺnˈdΚ’in jΙ™s /


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Many of the beautiful, sometimes ingenious products and technologies developed with the rise of the modern era gripped the popular imagination and made life easier, healthier and more connected.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

As a platform, all it did was "host a forum where users could post creative and ingenious content within the scope of free speech," it told the court.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Its panels of fiberglass-reinforced polymer are ingenious, significantly lightening the weight of a daringly cantilevered structure near the San Andreas fault in the Exposition Park neighborhood of South L.A.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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

But of all that Michell accomplished, nothing was more ingenious or had greater impact than a machine he designed and built for measuring the mass of the Earth.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson


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