adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cunning/clever/ingenious
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They devised a cunning plan to get back their money.
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The gang devised a cunning plan to rob the bank.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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A more ingenious theory claims that the stripes operate as a form of visual bonding between members of each herd.
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As the Victorian age got under way, ever more ingenious technologies aided the steady advance of drainage.
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Some slave-makers are more ingenious .
most
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On the face of it a most ingenious scheme.
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It was a most ingenious demonstration.
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He was the most ingenious fisherman, the most resourceful craftsman, and the most competent sailor whom I had ever met.
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Undoubtedly one of the most ingenious house tracks ever.
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But their most ingenious use is in the making of insect traps.
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Even so the most ingenious phraseology could not truly reconcile the many disparate concerns of the allies.
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Great, thought Sly, a most ingenious paradox.
■ NOUN
method
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Some advertise their trips as environmental Journeys and have hit on an ingenious method of sponsorship.
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He had been using an ingenious method .
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Considerable effort has gone into evaluating the risks and developing ingenious methods to reduce them.
way
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An ingenious way of opening a second front.
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Volunteers, sometimes wearing blue lapel pins in the shape of crutches, raised money in numerous and often ingenious ways .
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A more rare and highly ingenious way of decorating carnelian was invented by the Sumerians.
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He had to admit it was an ingenious way to phrase the question to a young audience.
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Many fish have ingenious ways of protecting their eggs from predators, - mostly other fish.
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Other corporations have devised ingenious ways to test and season their executives, according to McCall et al.
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Instead, in an ingenious way , it uses a flywheel generator.
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What he really enjoyed was the challenge and the stimulation of new problems to be solved in new and ingenious ways .
ways
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Many fish have ingenious ways of protecting their eggs from predators, - mostly other fish.
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Volunteers, sometimes wearing blue lapel pins in the shape of crutches, raised money in numerous and often ingenious ways .
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Although some bugs rarely indulge, others enjoy it on demand, and in many ingenious ways .
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Other corporations have devised ingenious ways to test and season their executives, according to McCall et al.
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What he really enjoyed was the challenge and the stimulation of new problems to be solved in new and ingenious ways .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A scanner is an ingenious device which enables you to feed pictures, photos or documents into a computer system.
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American scientists have come up with an ingenious way of getting rid of cockroaches.
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an ingenious marketing strategy
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In the end it was Pete who thought of a really ingenious solution to the problem.
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The catalogue is full of ingenious ideas for transforming your house into a dream home.