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brainy

adjective as in intelligent

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Such a brainy AI could come up with better ways to diagnose or prevent diseases.

Resnick-Baker is the buff and brainy heroine of Summit, a 15-issue comic series created and written by Amy Chu ’91.

For at least 10 million years after the dinosaurs disappeared, mammals got a lot brawnier but not brainier, researchers report in the April 1 Science.

One yet unknown question is which brainy details to include.

During his anti-society soapbox rants Allie can come across as a raving loon of the most dangerous sort, yet in this rendering he’s also charming and brainy enough to suggest why Margot didn’t just grab the kids and run years ago.

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After still one more failed engagement, Day married Esther Milnes, a brainy heiress who was utterly enchanted with his ideas.

They posted sensationalistic stories online, with headlines like “Brainy Ex-Model Suing Google.”

This will rightfully be marketed as a thriller, but it belongs among the brainy examples of the genre, like those by Robert Stone.

“I was the Hermione,” she said, referring to the brainy Harry Potter character.

Beautiful, brainy, and bossy—on the surface, Gu Kailai was a new breed of Politburo wife.

We've been waiting for you; you're all that's lacking—the brainy guy to sit behind the scenes and manage the thing.

They were brave, brainy, patriotic men, not disturbed by the abuse heaped upon them.

I remember that my brainy partner is counting khaki trousers in the Army clothing department.

His face was awfully white; not that brainy pallor that was familiar—something else!

Strong brainy men give themselves wholly to the task, and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars within a few months.

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On this page you'll find 51 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to brainy, such as: brilliant, bright, clever, intellectual, sapient, and smart.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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