inventive
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It also earned 28-year-old Salam a place on the Observer's list of the best debut novelists of 2026, with the paper saying "his raucous, wildly inventive prose is bound for a much bigger audience".
From BBC • May 22, 2026
Archaeologists working at an ancient site in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans may have become more inventive while living through a brutal ice age.
From Science Daily • May 9, 2026
Plenty of what circulates on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube is funny and inventive, made by girls for other girls, surviving precisely because it doesn’t require a corporation’s approval.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
It’s inventive, creative, imaginative without rules — the way artwork perhaps used to be in the middle ’80s.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026
Where ramblers and visitors are concerned, they are more inventive, only using physical force as a last resort if tales of new-planted grass, or a dangerous bull on the loose, are not sufficient.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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