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It was so exciting to observe such an ingenious and innovative way to access a food resource, we knew immediately that we had to systematically study this unique foraging behavior. – Barbara Klump	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This isn't to say we conclusively disproved any human involvement, in our scenario, modern humans settled on each landmass after proboscidean extinction risk had already escalated. An ingenious, highly adaptable social predator like our species could be the perfect black swan occurrence to deliver the coup de grâce. – Zhang Hanwen	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The only sad thing for me was not being able to go further into other parts of Nigeria, it is such a vast country and obviously there are so many other states and interesting areas. I know many are facing different challenges and other opportunities, so it was a pity not being able to do that, but otherwise it's always marvellous coming here because people are so friendly. I'm always intrigued by the way so many of these young, for instance, are developing really interesting ideas that they can turn into businesses and things like that, helping to tackle some of the real issues we face, particularly around the environment and waste and goodness knows what else. Very ingenious characters. – Prince CharlesPrince Charles	Found on CNN 6 years ago
The cyber threat to our country is going to get worse before it gets better, bad cyber actors — whether they’re nation states, cyber criminals, hacktivists, those who engage in ransomware — are increasingly aggressive, tenacious and ingenious. – Jeh Johnson	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The reason we chose Europa Clipper is because the clipper ships were fast, American boats at the time that they were first used, when most shipping was achieved with large, slow vessels, we liked clipper for that reason, an ingenious way to solve the Europa mission problem : How do you get a long-lived mission at Europa with global coverage but not be in the radiation environment ? – Britney Schmidt	Found on CNN 7 years ago
We were awarded $100,000 by the United States African Development Fund and Power Africa for the ingenious innovation. It is this money that we are now using to upscale the solar project. – Pfoofy Solar manager Achoge	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We were awarded $100,000 by the United States African Development Fund and Power Africa for the ingenious innovation. It is this money that we are now using to upscale the solar project. – Pfoofy Solar manager Achoge	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It’s an interesting idea, it makes waiting (for the bus) less boring, it’s an ingenious way of giving a city a soccer atmosphere. – Chilean Carlos Espinoza	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is a little more ingenious than most of the schemes, unfortunately, though, this preys on people who are uninformed and perhaps not well educated. – Andrew Orwig	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
An inventor is a person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. – Ambrose Bierce	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Men?s minds are generally ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. – Livy	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives. – James Joyce	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. – Edgar Allen Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. – Sir Arthur Helps	added by anonymous 15 years ago
No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none. – Henry Kissinger	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. – Ambrose Bierce	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. – W. Somerset Maugham	added by anonymous 15 years ago

It was so exciting to observe such an ingenious and innovative way to access a food resource, we knew immediately that we had to systematically study this unique foraging behavior.

– Barbara Klump

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This isn't to say we conclusively disproved any human involvement, in our scenario, modern humans settled on each landmass after proboscidean extinction risk had already escalated. An ingenious, highly adaptable social predator like our species could be the perfect black swan occurrence to deliver the coup de grâce.

– Zhang Hanwen

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The only sad thing for me was not being able to go further into other parts of Nigeria, it is such a vast country and obviously there are so many other states and interesting areas. I know many are facing different challenges and other opportunities, so it was a pity not being able to do that, but otherwise it's always marvellous coming here because people are so friendly. I'm always intrigued by the way so many of these young, for instance, are developing really interesting ideas that they can turn into businesses and things like that, helping to tackle some of the real issues we face, particularly around the environment and waste and goodness knows what else. Very ingenious characters.

– Prince CharlesPrince Charles

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The cyber threat to our country is going to get worse before it gets better, bad cyber actors — whether they’re nation states, cyber criminals, hacktivists, those who engage in ransomware — are increasingly aggressive, tenacious and ingenious.

– Jeh Johnson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The reason we chose Europa Clipper is because the clipper ships were fast, American boats at the time that they were first used, when most shipping was achieved with large, slow vessels, we liked clipper for that reason, an ingenious way to solve the Europa mission problem : How do you get a long-lived mission at Europa with global coverage but not be in the radiation environment ?

– Britney Schmidt

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We were awarded $100,000 by the United States African Development Fund and Power Africa for the ingenious innovation. It is this money that we are now using to upscale the solar project.

– Pfoofy Solar manager Achoge

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We were awarded $100,000 by the United States African Development Fund and Power Africa for the ingenious innovation. It is this money that we are now using to upscale the solar project.

– Pfoofy Solar manager Achoge

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It’s an interesting idea, it makes waiting (for the bus) less boring, it’s an ingenious way of giving a city a soccer atmosphere.

– Chilean Carlos Espinoza

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This is a little more ingenious than most of the schemes, unfortunately, though, this preys on people who are uninformed and perhaps not well educated.

– Andrew Orwig

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

An inventor is a person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

– Ambrose Bierce

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Men?s minds are generally ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves.

– Livy

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.

– James Joyce

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

– Edgar Allen Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

– Sir Arthur Helps

added by anonymous
15 years ago

No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

– Henry Kissinger

added by anonymous
15 years ago

Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

– Ambrose Bierce

added by anonymous
15 years ago

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

– W. Somerset Maugham

added by anonymous
15 years ago

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