Inventive
adjective
Being good at thinking of new ideas or making new things.
Her inventive approach to problem solving impressed her professors.
Often appears as...
- inventive mind
- inventive approach
adjective
Being good at thinking of new ideas or making new things.
Her inventive approach to problem solving impressed her professors.
Often appears as...
- inventive mind
- inventive approach
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Pro Tip 1/3Positive Connotation
The term 'inventive' carries a positive meaning, suggesting cleverness and originality.
Her inventive recipe won the cooking competition.
Pro Tip 2/3Problem-Solving
'Inventive' is often used to describe a unique method or idea that solves a problem.
He found an inventive way to fix the leaky faucet.
Pro Tip 3/3Originality Emphasis
Using 'inventive' emphasizes the original aspect of a person's ideas or products.
The designer's inventive clothing line set new trends.
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Connotation
The term 'inventive' carries a positive meaning, suggesting cleverness and originality.
Her inventive recipe won the cooking competition.
Pro Tip 2/3Problem-Solving
'Inventive' is often used to describe a unique method or idea that solves a problem.
He found an inventive way to fix the leaky faucet.
Pro Tip 3/3Originality Emphasis
Using 'inventive' emphasizes the original aspect of a person's ideas or products.
The designer's inventive clothing line set new trends.
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Connotation
The term 'inventive' carries a positive meaning, suggesting cleverness and originality.
Her inventive recipe won the cooking competition.
Pro Tip 2/3Problem-Solving
'Inventive' is often used to describe a unique method or idea that solves a problem.
He found an inventive way to fix the leaky faucet.
Pro Tip 3/3Originality Emphasis
Using 'inventive' emphasizes the original aspect of a person's ideas or products.
The designer's inventive clothing line set new trends.
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Demand a more...
them how a single person in the bureaucracy has the power to make decision about which patent application becomes the next patent and therefore monopolizes for 20 years the rights of an entire field of inventive activity well what did we do we said we can make a website we can make an expert Network
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Why I choose humanism...
So why despair when the unexpected knocks on the horizon? It is in our nature to create anew, to be inventive and innovative, so why languish in idle expectation of a savior from above? So it is time for us Africans to take our destiny in our hands and realize we have agency in the scheme of life.
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Rob Hopkins: Transition...
usually at the expense of the local, more resilient food systems that would have supplied that in the past, which we've so effectively devalued and dismantled. We can be astonishingly inventive and creative. But we also live in a world with very real constraints and demands.
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What coronavirus means...
over this period of time. It will pass, the world will be very different, there will be a new world order, but it will pass, and we'll be inventive, because what we're dealing with now is just money and credit. Money and credit is just digital. I mean, there's no --
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Will automation take...
The first part of the answer is that technology magnifies our leverage, increases the importance, the added value of our expertise, our judgment and our creativity. That's the O-ring. The second part of the answer is our endless inventiveness and bottomless desires
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How Apocalypses Paved...
of ecological space they probably do allow for greater evolutionary inventiveness than might have been potentially possible in a situation of a really crowded world mass extinctions basically cleared the
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The human skills we need...
if we use it. We have deep talents of inventiveness and exploration -- if we apply them. We are brave enough to invent things we've never seen before. Lose those skills, and we are adrift.
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Andreas Schleicher: Use...
High-performing systems have made teachers and school principals inventive. In the past, the policy focus was on outcomes, on provision. The high-performing systems have helped teachers
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How to Bring Plants to...
the problem with filming plants is that they don't really move a great deal well not that we can perceive so we had to get really inventive with technology that was going to help us to
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Empowering the next...
Africa's youth for this future we want to leapfrog them into the quantum world so that they can use all their creativity their inventiveness their initiative their ideas to access the
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Demand a more...
them how a single person in the bureaucracy has the power to make decision about which patent application becomes the next patent and therefore monopolizes for 20 years the rights of an entire field of inventive activity well what did we do we said we can make a website we can make an expert Network
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Why I choose humanism...
So why despair when the unexpected knocks on the horizon? It is in our nature to create anew, to be inventive and innovative, so why languish in idle expectation of a savior from above? So it is time for us Africans to take our destiny in our hands and realize we have agency in the scheme of life.
Video examples
Rob Hopkins: Transition...
usually at the expense of the local, more resilient food systems that would have supplied that in the past, which we've so effectively devalued and dismantled. We can be astonishingly inventive and creative. But we also live in a world with very real constraints and demands.
Video examples
What coronavirus means...
over this period of time. It will pass, the world will be very different, there will be a new world order, but it will pass, and we'll be inventive, because what we're dealing with now is just money and credit. Money and credit is just digital. I mean, there's no --
Video examples
Will automation take...
The first part of the answer is that technology magnifies our leverage, increases the importance, the added value of our expertise, our judgment and our creativity. That's the O-ring. The second part of the answer is our endless inventiveness and bottomless desires
Video examples
How Apocalypses Paved...
of ecological space they probably do allow for greater evolutionary inventiveness than might have been potentially possible in a situation of a really crowded world mass extinctions basically cleared the
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The human skills we need...
if we use it. We have deep talents of inventiveness and exploration -- if we apply them. We are brave enough to invent things we've never seen before. Lose those skills, and we are adrift.
Video examples
Andreas Schleicher: Use...
High-performing systems have made teachers and school principals inventive. In the past, the policy focus was on outcomes, on provision. The high-performing systems have helped teachers
Video examples
How to Bring Plants to...
the problem with filming plants is that they don't really move a great deal well not that we can perceive so we had to get really inventive with technology that was going to help us to
Video examples
Empowering the next...
Africa's youth for this future we want to leapfrog them into the quantum world so that they can use all their creativity their inventiveness their initiative their ideas to access the
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David Hanson
American Inventor
I have been motivated by this idea since I was a kid that if we invented machines that were created in the way that people are - were aware, have free will, inventive machines, machines that would be geniuses - potentially, they could reinvent themselves. They're not just applying it to other things - they could actually redesign themselves.
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Michiko Kakutani
American Critic
One of my favorite things, as a critic, was finding books by new writers who possessed a distinctive voice and vision, an inventive gift for storytelling. I also loved immersing myself in works of nonfiction that taught me something about the world, that made the past come alive or shed light on hidden corners of history or the news.
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Jennifer Chiaverini
American Artist
In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to quilters through history.
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John Burnside
Scottish Writer
For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is known by others. To lose its species song is to lose not just its identity but some part of its presence in the world.
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Toby Emmerich
American Producer
We never had a giant library or owned a lot of commercial characters the way most studios did. And since we didn't have a lot of internal resources, we had to find ways to be inventive and resourceful, which I think is a healthy way to run a good business.
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Richard Attias
Moroccan Businessman
Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without a safety net.
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Daniel H. Pink
American Author
What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.
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Neil Gershenfeld
American Scientist
The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.
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Kevin Young
Great music - say jazz - has that inventive, improvisational quality that tells us something about life.
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Tom Clancy
American Novelist
America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.
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David Hanson
American Inventor
I have been motivated by this idea since I was a kid that if we invented machines that were created in the way that people are - were aware, have free will, inventive machines, machines that would be geniuses - potentially, they could reinvent themselves. They're not just applying it to other things - they could actually redesign themselves.
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Michiko Kakutani
American Critic
One of my favorite things, as a critic, was finding books by new writers who possessed a distinctive voice and vision, an inventive gift for storytelling. I also loved immersing myself in works of nonfiction that taught me something about the world, that made the past come alive or shed light on hidden corners of history or the news.
Quote examples
Jennifer Chiaverini
American Artist
In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to quilters through history.
Quote examples
John Burnside
Scottish Writer
For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is known by others. To lose its species song is to lose not just its identity but some part of its presence in the world.
Quote examples
Toby Emmerich
American Producer
We never had a giant library or owned a lot of commercial characters the way most studios did. And since we didn't have a lot of internal resources, we had to find ways to be inventive and resourceful, which I think is a healthy way to run a good business.
Quote examples
Richard Attias
Moroccan Businessman
Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without a safety net.
Quote examples
Daniel H. Pink
American Author
What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.
Quote examples
Neil Gershenfeld
American Scientist
The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.
Quote examples
Kevin Young
Great music - say jazz - has that inventive, improvisational quality that tells us something about life.
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Tom Clancy
American Novelist
America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.
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