ingenious idea
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ingenious
adjective
uk/ɪnˈdʒiː.ni.əs/us/ɪnˈdʒiː.ni.əs/
(of a person) very intelligent and skilful, or (of a thing) skilfully made or planned and involving new ideas ...
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idea
noun
uk/aɪˈdɪə/us/aɪˈdiː.ə/
a suggestion or plan for ...
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(Definition ofingeniousandideafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It was aningeniousideaat the time to say that we would levy money from people and pay it back later.
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This statutory trust is a mostingeniousidea.
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That is the difficulty about hisingeniousidea.
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Does this mean that this is aningeniousideato avoid raising the cost-of-living index figure?
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This is aningeniousideaand is an example of how flexible and enterprising a private enterprise company can be.
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I am not particularly advocating it, but it seems a ratheringeniousidea.
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I thought this aningeniousidea.
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That may be aningeniousidea.
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It was a veryingeniousidea.
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He invented a mostingeniousidea.
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Several critics praised the central concept, calling it an intriguing premise and aningeniousidea.
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If so, it was aningeniousidea.
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But that is how the amendment was agreed upon, and there was no question of anybody getting at us with ingenious ideas or anything else.
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Ingenious ideas are not lacking to deal with those important practical matters.
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They have all sorts of ingenious ideas for getting into the service when the service has been stopped.
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We shall now hear, and have heard, ingenious ideas for doing it in some other way.
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Some ingenious ideas were put forward, but the majority of the motoring public and the motor trade overwhelmingly wanted a simple system which would minimise the cost of change.
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That would leave out of consideration rewards which are or ought to be offered to people with ingenious ideas, payment for work done, and all that sort of thing.
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I suspect that that idea is no longer even remotely tenable, but no doubt there will be other ingenious ideas for the re-use of the rigs.
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