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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
But back then, there were just no guardrails, so these guys could be wildly inventive.
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Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 11 June 2026
And so the show is just so thoughtful and finds all these really inventive ways of exploring that idea.
—Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
Combinations are inventive with one dish pairing langoustine with cacao and lion’s mane mushroom and another bringing together lamb with cockles.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2026
In this inventive, boundary-pushing follow-up to Detransition, Baby, one novella and three stories take on gender, transness and lives on the margins in all of their gorgeously complicated glory.
—Caroline Killilea, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
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Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 11 June 2026
And so the show is just so thoughtful and finds all these really inventive ways of exploring that idea.
—Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
Combinations are inventive with one dish pairing langoustine with cacao and lion’s mane mushroom and another bringing together lamb with cockles.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2026
In this inventive, boundary-pushing follow-up to Detransition, Baby, one novella and three stories take on gender, transness and lives on the margins in all of their gorgeously complicated glory.
—Caroline Killilea, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inventive
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James Blood Ulmer, the innovative guitarist who fused avant-garde jazz with funk and the blues, died on June 3, according to a statement his family published via DownBeat.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
9 June 2026
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Korean cushions are known for their innovative skin care-meets-makeup formulas.—
Reece Andavolgyi,
InStyle,
9 June 2026
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He’s known for his ability for creative playmaking and his willingness to slip into any role when the situation calls for it.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
12 June 2026
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Your innovative streak loves fresh starts, and simple domestic wins can spark bigger solutions elsewhere without forcing anything, as calm space makes creative thinking easier.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
11 June 2026
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Instead of creating a carbon-copy of Disney's American theme parks, its designers, who are known as Imagineers due to their imaginative use of engineering, tailored the Shanghai site to the local market.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
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The goal was a technique that felt visually imaginative without undermining the credibility of the drama around it.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
11 June 2026
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Salah was replaced by Hamza Abdelkarim, a talented 18-year-old forward, who is one of the youngest players in this tournament.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
16 June 2026
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The combination – the buzzwords drilled down by a drill sergeant – coalesced into a team that was as mentally tough as it was talented.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
15 June 2026
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The trouble is that the clever work is the part the market actually values.—
Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2026
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Perspective widens as the intuitive Moon moves through your 9th House of Exploration, sextiling clever Mercury in your 11th House of Friendship.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
12 June 2026
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“Inventive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inventive. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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