brainy
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At age 88, director Ridley Scott has proved he can still make brainy sci-fi, nearly half a century after “Alien.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The academic gloves are off — which isn’t to say that it’s not brainy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Less known-but similarly compelling—is the brainy leap that’s happening with my best sport, eating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
At 12, the brainy boy who read the World Almanac for pleasure appeared on the popular radio show “Quiz Kids.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
Three adults sat in the front row looking extremely brainy.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
“Midnight Suns” comes from 2K Games’ Firaxis studio, known for brainier challenges like “Civilization” and “XCOM.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
Though they lack nerve cells, sponges have some of the same specialized genes for synapses that brainier creatures possess, studies have shown.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 3, 2021
Even you acknowledge this when the live studio audience doesn't laugh at one of your brainier opening punchlines.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2021
"It is gonna be a no brainier," Hong said.
From Reuters ● Sep. 13, 2021
It isn’t that the collegian is necessarily any brainier, but he has been taught how to use his brains.
From Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball by J. W. Duffield
The Black-owned weekly newspaper New York Amsterdam News once described her as “one of the brightest and brainiest of the undiscovered teevee personalities.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
Share your score with friends and compete to see who’s the brainiest.
From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2023
He was crowned Britain's brainiest kid aged 12 in 2002, beating thousands of other kids on the TV show.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2023
The brainiest organization in baseball suddenly looks like the most foolish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2021
‘Human beans is not understanding them at all. Not even their brainiest prossefors is understanding them. Has you seen enough?’
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
