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as in innovative
showing a noteworthy use of the imagination and creativity especially in inventing
inventive electronic games inventive ways to use leftovers
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as in creative
having the skill and imagination to create new things
an inventive youth, he devised an automatic feeding system for his dog
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Recent Examples of inventive
Close out the evening on the Division Street corridor for dinner, one of Portland’s best food scenes, and treat yourself to dessert at Salt & Straw, famous for inventive, small-batch ice cream flavors.
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Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 16 Apr. 2026
Wrap up with dessert at Salt & Straw, famous for inventive, small-batch ice cream.
—Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 16 Apr. 2026
Wrap up with dessert at Salt & Straw, famous for inventive, small-batch ice cream flavors.
—Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2026
Wrap up with Salt & Straw, famous for inventive, small-batch ice cream flavors.
—Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026
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Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 16 Apr. 2026
Wrap up with dessert at Salt & Straw, famous for inventive, small-batch ice cream.
—Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 16 Apr. 2026
Wrap up with dessert at Salt & Straw, famous for inventive, small-batch ice cream flavors.
—Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2026
Wrap up with Salt & Straw, famous for inventive, small-batch ice cream flavors.
—Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inventive
Adjective
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Rihanna is being singled out for her innovative skills.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Apr. 2026
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Not all innovation comes from startups, and not all startups are innovative.—
Interesting Engineering,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Some are creative directors, CEOs, HR and finance personnel.—
Chris Wragge,
CBS News,
17 Apr. 2026
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That burden, along with the conventions of the true-crime genre, not to mention that of theater in service of a political point, sometimes hampers the interpretive space of the actors and the creative team, who have to spend a lot of their time getting the facts and the history across.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Apr. 2026
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Act Two is a little more musically imaginative.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2026
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To most Americans, Roald Dahl is a children’s book author — the imaginative, intimidating, and somewhat insane mind behind beloved books like Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and The BFG.—
Elisabeth Garber-Paul,
Rolling Stone,
19 Apr. 2026
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Outside of being a clever marketing tactic, the controversy over the movie was also the natural result of a pre-internet time when Faces of Death was more talked about than actually seen.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2026
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The clever tuning of the suspension and the steering wheel -- that's what our engineers are incredibly skilled at.—
Morgan Korn,
ABC News,
10 Apr. 2026
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This was a team that looked tougher, more connected and, frankly, more talented than the team with the better record.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 Apr. 2026
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Super talented and super athletic.—
Hunter Bailey,
Charlotte Observer,
20 Apr. 2026
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“Inventive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inventive. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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