ingenuity

noun

ˌin-jə-ˈnü-ə-tē How to pronounce ingenuity (audio)
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the skill and imagination to create new things the mystery writer's exceptional ingenuity enabled her to devise plots that always had readers guessing to the very end

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Recent Examples of ingenuity Being a Southern surfer requires a bit more patience and ingenuity than is expected of athletes who live in West Coast locales like California and Hawaii. — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 20 Feb. 2025 Seven Wonders of the Ancient World – Inspired by Professor Bettany Hughes’ best-selling book of the same name, the accomplished historian and broadcaster follow in the footsteps of the very first tourists, travelling between marvels of human ingenuity. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 19 Feb. 2025 While most of the modular ingenuity is contained within the CampOut's walls, some of it finds its way to the outside. — New Atlas, 14 Feb. 2025 Perry, an Atlantic contributing writer and a National Book Award–winning author, fills her latest work with accounts of ingenuity and Black resilience that are held together, loosely but intentionally, with threads of cerulean, sapphire, and azure. — Omari Weekes, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ingenuity
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  1. creativity
  2. imagination
  3. talent
Noun
  • Appreciation: Recognize the complementary strengths of human creativity and AI efficiency.
    — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
  • This will likely affect your love life, children or fertility matters or creativity and hobbies.
    — Kyle Thomas, People.com, 16 Mar. 2025
Definition of creativity
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  • To gossip well—ethically, and aesthetically, too—a person needs sympathy alongside judgment: not merely information but imagination.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Without naming and shaming his many imitators (and inspiring angry social media posts as a result), none approach their craft with the level of imagination and creativity that Carti does.
    — Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of imagination
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  • The Sweden international’s talent has never been in question but those who have worked with the Newcastle striker describe a unique, complex personality — someone who is ridiculously driven, yet can be laid-back and withdrawn, all at once.
    — Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Just how far would two undiscovered Canadian musicians go to book a show at the Rivoli, a Toronto club (and sometime music venue) best known for helping to launch comedy talents like Kids in the Hall back in the day?
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of talent

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