brilliant
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Linus Pauling was one of the most brilliant scientists of the 20th century.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
Sam writes that it’s a brilliant, funny, and blood-soaked manifesto on how to love people who have less-than-perfect politics.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
Minnesota’s private sector remains extraordinary: brilliant entrepreneurs, disciplined family businesses, innovative medical and technology companies, farmers who feed the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Make it brilliant white, with gold piping and epaulets, and I guarantee he’d wear it.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
For decades before the Mona Lisa theft, he’d been suspected of every con, every forgery, every eccentric scheme: if the job was brilliant, it might be the work of Adam Worth.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
At its head was the Sacred Golden Crown, covered with brilliants, emeralds, rubies and turquoises.
From Time Magazine Archive
Archbishop Diaz stooped, puffed, fumbled, handed the brilliants pontifically to an attendant, and the fiesta went on.
From Time Magazine Archive
For her trouble the Turkish Government awarded her Turkey's highest aviation honor, a medal set with brilliants.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hung against her poop like a great comb of brilliants, a huge electric sign F-R-A-N-C-E made the French Liner France a vessel unique as she moved through her Mediterranean cruise last' week.
From Time Magazine Archive
It had on its lid a miniature of the king set in brilliants of great beauty.
From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville
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