brainy
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Instead, the overnight success of Claude Code made clear that the bigger prize came from selling tools to brainy software developers, and the deep-pocketed companies that employed them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
In a World Cup where the boffins with their big brainy heads and their super computers are working overtime on who might play who in the last 32, there are other calculations worth conjuring with.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
Deutch is as twinkly as ever, but the breakout is Ben Wang as an ambitious CAA receptionist, the brainy Scarecrow of the group.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2026
In 1978, the New Yorker called Keaton “one of the most comedically pure and brainy actresses in our midst.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
Of particular interest to a brainy, idealistic youth such as Farmer, Virchow helped define the field of medical anthropology—the study of human health and disease and public health care systems.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
“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
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
“Rick and Morty” is one of the funniest, brainiest, and most philosophically dense comedies on TV, let alone on Adult Swim.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2019
Of those choreographers, Cunningham and Ms. Brown were among the brainiest.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2017
He’s the brainiest guy I know and is built like he could be a linebacker, even though he hates sports.
From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
