noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
human
▪
The growth of the deserts Human ingenuity has often confounded the pessimists.
▪
But human ingenuity and intelligence, plus what may amount to an instinct for symbolism, comes to the rescue.
▪
Although well protected against most predators they are no match for human ingenuity .
▪
The other, related mistake is the persistent tendency of Malthusians to underestimate human ingenuity .
▪
The combination of nature, human ingenuity and climate has indeed wrought a landscape which changes at nearly every turn.
▪
The tricks used to disappear people off the registers are a tribute to human ingenuity .
▪
But we aren't testing human ingenuity .
▪
Attempts to reconcile these two decisions have expanded human ingenuity and expended an unconscionable amount of time, effort and paper.
■ VERB
require
▪
A detailed exposition and defence would require considerably more ingenuity and effort.
▪
Turning physical activities into games, especially the ones the child benefits from, requires ingenuity .
▪
The campaign against apprenticeship in 1837-8 required no great dialectical ingenuity or intellectual departures by the abolitionists.
▪
My job running a multimedia facility requires ingenuity and brains.
use
▪
Failing this, nurses can help by using empathy, ingenuity and miming.
▪
If the ideal course of action is not possible doctors must use their ingenuity to find another.