brilliantly

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Markwayne Mullin has a brilliantly dumb idea he’s workshopping.

From Slate • May 30, 2026

“When you can give them a good movie, as long as the movie plays well and I think this one plays brilliantly, there’s a big audience out there.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026

Essential to a wilderness is its capacity to bewilder, and though certain of Church’s colleagues in the Hudson River group, notably Worthington Whittredge, brilliantly captured this dense, enfolding quality, Church seldom did.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Hibs - hanging on brilliantly against the odds, heading everything clear, throwing bodies in the way of shots, blowing a gasket to protect their point in front of an electrified home and away crowd.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

Hermione emerged, coughing, out of the smoke, clutching the telescope and sporting a brilliantly purple black eye.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling