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the skill and imagination to create new things
- the mystery writer's exceptional ingenuity enabled her to devise plots that always had readers guessing to the very end
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“Ingenuity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingenuity. Accessed 18 Oct. 2021.
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The first known use of ingenuity was circa 1592
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