ingenuity
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Pakistan's second innings also included dismissals caught at leg slip and backward square leg, although those were as much down to batter error as Root's ingenuity.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
To catch up in the era of generative AI, Chinese companies have relied on the familiar mix of ingenuity and imitation that also lies behind the nation’s successes in electronics, cars and green energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Now, in a memo released Wednesday, the White House is attempting to fight back against cybercrime by encouraging private companies to go after transnational criminal organizations “by incorporating the ingenuity of the private sector.”
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Cubans take pride in facing hardship with resilience and ingenuity, but that fortitude comes at a high psychological cost amid the island's latest protracted crisis.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
But they directed their ingenuity toward technological problems appropriate to their situations: the problems of surviving without any imported items in the New Guinea jungle, rather than the problem of inventing phonographs.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The metal was made to look like painted wood, with jaunty bay windows and miniaturized versions of classic Williams ironwork on the outside, and space-saving ingenuities indoors.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
Yet the celebration of digitization renders the driver completely invisible—even though it is their knowledge and ingenuities that allow the technologies to appear frictionless.
From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2020
Galleries and museums are filled with walk-on-by works that, whatever their ingenuities, are basically just variations on old models, wall-filling exercises in easy, comfortable beauty.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2019
This analysis was an easy one, because the song is straight fours and its ingenuities are easy to describe.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2014
Hence the poet's ingenuities of adoration; hence often the monotony of artificial passion; hence, also, subtleties and curiosities of expression, and sought-out delicacies of style.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse
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