ingenuity
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As police and protesters engage in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, social media savvy students are turning ingenuity into a form of resistance.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
The research team also acknowledged Chris Hewett, Byron Goode, and Joe McElveen of NC State's Instrument Shop for their ingenuity in manufacturing the components used in the experiments.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026
Another woman posted a photo of her horse and wrote: “My four-legged friend got in trouble and they came to his rescue with an impressive level of ingenuity and strength, and I’m so grateful.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 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
A few weeks after it is shipped, he receives a letter from Mr. Barris, offering his sincere thanks and marveling at the ingenuity of it.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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
She could laugh at the ingenuities attributed to her, yet the notions which had given them birth found, as she perceived more and more clearly, a warrant in her feelings, if not in her conduct.
From Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House by Anthony Hope
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