brilliant
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Following these rules will not make you an instantly brilliant investor.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026
November 2026 is packed with celestial events worth watching, from brilliant meteors streaking across the sky to a striking encounter between Mars and Jupiter.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
“Making it all one thing with these brilliant people is a constant joy and a constant challenge.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
But soon, the move would turn into a brilliant short of two struggling franchises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
As the work began, I kept spotting people I knew of from Cambridge—the classics scholar Dilly Knox, the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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Five days a week, 14 hours a day, he squints through nine newspapers and bends over his typewriter like a jeweler, chipping and polishing at the hard little brilliants for his program.
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Archbishop Diaz stooped, puffed, fumbled, handed the brilliants pontifically to an attendant, and the fiesta went on.
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She finally disclosed that she had made it herself out of some old tulle and brilliants she "found around the house" and it "represented absolutely nothing at all."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Other items: > An agate bowl mounted in gold, fine stones, brilliants and rubies, with two enameled gold sirens, bearing baskets of fruit, poised on the rim.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I see," Margaret repeated; "the emerald—with brilliants round it, and above it the twisted letters—A.V.C.
From Christina by L. G. Moberly
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