ingenious
adjective
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David Colman, Vogue, April 2001
… spacecraft engineers tried to come up with ways to "unstick" the antenna. Those attempts failed, but by ingenious software and mission-sequencing techniques … the Galileo mission was still able to fulfill nearly all of its scientific requirements and return a rich quantity of scientific data …
—Louis Friedman et al., Encyclopedia of the Solar System, 1999
… an ingenious method of checking errors …
—W. David Gardner, Datamation, June 1982
The book has an ingenious plot.
She was ingenious at finding ways to work more quickly.
It was ingenious of him to arrange the schedule so precisely.
S. I. Rosenbaum, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2024
The supporting cast remains stellar (Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles, Karl Urban), as Bourne navigates ingenious spy gambits, daring last-minute escapes, and some truly brutal fight scenes to reach his goal.
—Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2024
Over a million creators from 150 countries now use their ingenious software to make better videos faster.
Vidyo.ai today has a team that spans two continents, building cutting-edge software for creators.
—Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2024
Some ingenious pranks of the past — and some arguably over-the-line — actually got people out of the house or riled up enough to call the government.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2024
From the millennia-old superyacht that still resonates today to the small kitchen tool that enabled modern haute cuisine to the ingenious invention of the credit card, which pays for it all, here are the products, ideas, and shots in the dark that led to now.
—The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
Given a conflict that won’t manifest for centuries, the story becomes about which theories last—and how so many of the figures who come up with ingenious plans must learn to share them and convince others of their worldview.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2024
Inside, they’re filled with elegant, ingenious touches dreamed up by Fernandez-Casteleiro, including interior plywood doors that swivel on a single pin.
—Alice Newell-Hanson Simon Watson, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
These nighttime scenes are provided with ingenious contrast during intervening mornings, made up largely of establishing shots of green mountainsides and nearby communities, captured from afar.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
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ingenious
adjective
from early French ingenieus "calling for or showing special intelligence or cleverness," from Latin ingeniosus (same meaning), from ingenium "natural ability or desire to do something, inborn ability," from in "in" and -genium, from gignere "to father, beget" — related to engine, genius, gin entry 1
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