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as in innovative
having the skill and imagination to create new things
Thomas Edison's status as perhaps America's greatest creative genius
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as in imaginative
showing a noteworthy use of the imagination and creativity especially in inventing
always coming up with creative ways to use hamburger
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Recent Examples of creative
Hints of that creative process pepper the open-layout living room.
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Keith Flanagan, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2025
While cost savings and subsidies matter, the panelists agreed that creative will always dictate where a story is told.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
Published earlier this year by Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, Audition is described as a twisty thriller that follows a celebrated actress enjoying a charmed, bohemian life in Manhattan with her creative husband.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
Charles is also the founder of a creative collective, Future of Creatives, which is focused on amplifying women of color and other underrepresented creators.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
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Keith Flanagan, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2025
While cost savings and subsidies matter, the panelists agreed that creative will always dictate where a story is told.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
Published earlier this year by Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, Audition is described as a twisty thriller that follows a celebrated actress enjoying a charmed, bohemian life in Manhattan with her creative husband.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
Charles is also the founder of a creative collective, Future of Creatives, which is focused on amplifying women of color and other underrepresented creators.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for creative
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As a leader, putting your focus building a truly innovative organization can enable you to pull up and look at the equity landscape from a bigger picture lens.—
Heather V. MacArthur,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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While technology has always played a role in diagnosing and treating disease, the health care industry as a whole has been slower to adopt innovative digital platforms for analyzing data to change how care is delivered.—
Alice Park,
Time,
18 Sep. 2025
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This sculptural Snoopy mug brings the scene to life, featuring the dog in his heroic Flying Ace outfit (which doubles as an adorable Halloween costume idea), scarf and goggles in place, ready for imaginative aerial battles.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Sep. 2025
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Again, bold and daring and wild changes, sure, but also imaginative and illuminating.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
8 Sep. 2025
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Arena aims to bring hardware innovation to more people and allow inventive machinery to flourish, in the same way that the internet enabled an explosion of software services and apps.—
Aman Kidwai,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Every year, the food seems to be more inventive and as diverse as the chef teams serving it up.—
Laura Ness,
Mercury News,
16 Sep. 2025
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None of them wound up being, to me, especially funny or clever.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Sep. 2025
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So while a raccoon's tiny hand reaching through your shower wall might feel like a scene from a thriller, the real story is far more down-to-earth—a clever animal simply looking for food and shelter.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
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Tomorrow, 2025’s summer season will be officially over—so let’s make the most of it with some amazing music and new albums from the industry’s brightest stars and some talented up-and-coming acts.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
19 Sep. 2025
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Good historians and talented fiction writers can tease out human qualities from such personages while acknowledging their fundamental distance from our own time.—
Will Collins,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Creative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/creative. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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