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Recent Examples of creativity When too much brainpower goes toward meeting basic needs like rent or groceries, long-term thinking and innovation fade, depriving society of creativity and progress. Scott Ellis, Time, 17 Oct. 2025 Connelly loved Dillingham’s creativity, shot generation and handle. Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025 The Cavaliers guard has built a reputation for his calm leadership and creativity on and off the court. Evan Dammarell, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025 The lab brings together experts from leading fashion companies and Hongik University faculty to nurture talent equipped with both creativity and practical capability. Sj Studio, Sourcing Journal, 16 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for creativity
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Noun
  • The goal is to reconnect with your own unique curiosity and imagination.
    Cas Holman, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Whether the Monster is part of Ana’s imagination or not, the scene carries a fragile, haunting power, suggesting that the only person capable of rescuing Ana from the pervasive mystery and misery of her home life belongs to the supernatural, outside the punishing borders of Franco’s Spain.
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Browns clearly need help at the wide receiver position, but Gabriel's arm talent has not stuck out much.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The supermodel sisters have been very vocal about Mohamed's culinary talents.
    Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With no spare dough for musical development, Tupac and Mouse relied on ingenuity.
    Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In much contemporary literary fiction, that’s often replaced by ingenuity.
    New York Times, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Bennett is a writer of great linguistic inventiveness; her previous books, the short-story collection Pond and the novel Checkout 19, use surprising wordplay to evoke their narrators’ unique ways of interacting with the world.
    Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
  • BigXthaPlug – and his many collaborators – score big wins on several Billboard charts this week thanks to that inventiveness.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Creativity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/creativity. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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