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Meanings of inventive powers in English

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Usage of inventive powers in English
1
The cultivation of the scientific judgment, and the inventive powers of the mind.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881
2
Baron Cohen possesses a great comic talent and remarkable inventive powers.
The Guardian
3
George was ignorant of South African zoology, and possessed inventive powers.
The Settler and the Savage
4
All of Barnum's inventive powers were called into play effectually to advertise his song-bird.
A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career: Life of Hon. Phineas T. B...
5
Abundant room for the exercise of her inventive powers.
The Young Woman's Guide
6
Horace has taken this feeling as the motif of a criticism on man's inventive powers.
The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth
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The idea struck all as being feasible, and Reuben was much congratulated upon his inventive powers.
Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main
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There seemed no limit to his inventive powers.
The Huge Hunter; Or, The Steam Man of the Prairies
9
Over the next decade Devant's inventive powers produced a continual string of marvels at St. George's Hall.
Hiding the Elephant
10
Our reputation for fair dealing as well as for inventive powers is linked up with this contract.
Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive; Or, Two Miles a Minute on...
11
An opportunity soon arose to turn his knowledge and inventive powers to account in a very important way.
The Junior Classics, Volume 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism
12
And the fire seemed only to awaken their inventive powers, and excite them to fresh deeds of vandalism.
The Merchant of Berlin: An Historical Novel
13
A country that borrows its language, its laws, and its religion, cannot have its inventive powers much developed.
Endymion
14
When it came to stretching the wire of the pasture fence he had to resort to his inventive powers.
Hiram the Young Farmer
15
What have the inventive powers of woman accomplished, even within what have been usually regarded as her own precincts?
The Young Woman's Guide
16
On the trip the day before, she had seen something which had excited her inventive powers in the highest degree.
Gritli's Children
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