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What does ingenuity mean?

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Noun
  1. The ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.
  2. (now rare) Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness.
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Making butter, salting it, and packing it in wooden kegs for the Honolulu market required skill and ingenuity.
Besides his own ingenuity, he used a tile setter's simple tools and a window washer's belt and buckle.
From here, you can also admire the ingenuity of the wave-like, or hilly, structure that defines the centre.
The two artists are very good at glitchy, abstract manipulations, here without remorse and full of ingenuity.
The ingenuity of the contraption was that a string was wound around the alarm winder and the other end tied to the bolt.
Perhaps your ingenuity will start an exciting new trend for other letter writers.

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