ingenuity
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Synonyms
cleverness, creativeness, creativity, imagination, imaginativeness, ingeniousness, innovativeness, invention, inventiveness, originality
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But the truth is that surreality can be just the escape that addled minds needâas seen in the career of the legacy star of the night, Missy Elliott, to whose ingenuity all the showâs trippy highlights were indebted. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, "The VMAs Were the End of Reality," 27 Aug. 2019 Scary strength and breathtaking ingenuity: Thatâs football, thatâs America. — Kyle Smith, National Review, "Why Football Is Great," 22 Aug. 2019 But the challenge, in its fun, is a great way to take something that put down Black women, and transform it into something that highlights their beauty and ingenuity. — Shalwah Evans, Essence, "The #DMXChallenge Hilariously Highlights Black Womenâs Hair Versatility," 20 Aug. 2019 As with any mission of exploration, dealing with the unknown requires flexibility, resources and ingenuity. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, "A NASA mission's delicate dance to collect samples from a rugged asteroid," 13 Aug. 2019 Recycling and economic ingenuity is not just subject, in Baptisteâs work, but clever technique. — Doreen St. FĂ©lix, The New Yorker, "A Young Artist Charts the Journey from âHaiti to Hoodâ," 8 Aug. 2019 Both are luxurious in their own ways, as testaments to hard work and human ingenuity, though only one is seen as worthy of being flaunted. — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, "What does luxury mean for the modern restaurant critic?," 5 Aug. 2019 Supplying those soldiers without a port took a considerable effort and that again is where innovation and ingenuity played a major role. — Fox News, "How D-Day technology made Operation Overlord a success," 7 June 2019 Such projects cost hundreds of millions of dollars, required incredible ingenuity, and succeeded only in keeping tiny dots on the map from turning red. — Benjamin Wallace-wells, The New Yorker, "A Louisiana Republican Reckons with Climate Change," 27 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'ingenuity.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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