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macgyvered

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Past of MacGyver

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You don't need any special equipment (which is good because I don't have any); at one point, she MacGyvered a way to grasp hot, slippery jars by twisting some rubber bands over my tongs.

The service's approach to using Siri, though it is a bit of a hack, puts it among a wave of services that have found inventive ways to make use of the feature — like Air Dictate, which has MacGyvered a way for people to use Siri to type on a Mac.

Max Pinckers had his flash taken away when he went to Pyongyang with Evan Osnos, but he MacGyvered a new one out of a flashlight and duct tape, and his photos from that trip capture hairline cracks in the façade that Kim Jong Un's regime erects for the outside world.

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Taylor's version of events is wildly "MacGyver -esque — he used a pair of red headphones to tie the uMacGyver -esque and sweet.

"If you've got to resort to bodyguard work, I've got news for you: it's too late," Bongino said, noting that an agent's work is done mostly in advance, and that it requires creativity: "We're like the MacGyvers of federal law enforcement".

On "Invisibilia," seemingly unsolvable problems can have MacGyver-like workarounds — a phenomenon that Miller, on "Radiolab," once described as "when duct tape solves the ethereal sadness".

She began to confer with her studio manager, Mike Barnett, a laconic young man with a MacGyver-like resourcefulness.

Like so many of TV's strategic geniuses, from Don Draper to Francis Underwood, Cromwell was a class jumper: the abused son of a Putney blacksmith, he transformed himself into a worldly man, a sort of internationalist MacGyver.

We've been doing some serious fly-by-night MacGyver magic just to turn the lights back on in the White Zone.

"Both Jeff Bezos and Pierre Omidyar have a hacker's ethos, a willingness to engage in lateral thinking to solve problems in a nonconventional way, to reject what has been taken for granted and MacGyver their way to solutions," suggested Shane Snow, a founder of Contently, a marketplace for content creators.

"This whole place is about MacGyver-ing it," Mr. Banks said.

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