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The phrase "an ingenious device for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a clever or innovative tool or mechanism designed for a specific purpose.
Example: "The inventor showcased an ingenious device for simplifying the process of recycling plastic waste."
Alternatives: "a clever tool for" or "a brilliant mechanism for".
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Rather than a racist caricature, Ali G was an ingenious device for revealing racism.
Suesskind's Turn Hall at 85th Street and Lexington Avenue has an ingenious device for preserving your smoke.
One – called Bruce – tweeted: "Not stopping at stations would be an ingenious device for running a service on time".
A grackle flew into a tree nearby and… Suesskind's Turn Hall at 85th Street and Lexington Avenue has an ingenious device for preserving your smoke.
The New Yorker, July 12 , 1930 P. 9Suesskind's Turn Hall at 85th Street and Lexington Avenue has an ingenious device for preserving your smoke.
In "The Devil's Dictionary," Ambrose Bierce famously defined a corporation as "an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility".
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Donald A. Glaser, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960 for inventing, at 25, an ingenious device called the bubble chamber to trace the paths of subatomic particles, died on Thursday at his home in Berkeley, Calif.
To convey Quoyle's inner thoughts, the filmmakers came up with an ingenious device: the newspaperman reflects aloud in "headlines" like "Lumbering Idiot Stuns Crowd For a Change".
She has come up with an ingenious device that can capture and reproduce odours accurately.
In the 1960s, Engelbart invented the computer mouse, an ingenious device that evolved into a cheap, mass-produced and pretty much unavoidable tool of modern office life.
It's an ingenious device.
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