brilliant
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"He was brilliant for us and was one of those special horses."
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
"If anyone thought Hampton was just good at the Euros - she has been consistently brilliant ever since," former England goalkeeper Rachel Brown-Finnis told BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
Their crushing victory, which Miller called “the most brilliant ever fought in South America,” sealed the fate of Spanish America.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Edmund is said to be brilliant but we mostly get evidence of his pretensions and “annoying air of lazy authority.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
His work is brilliant, and to anyone seeing it for the first time, or even the second or the third, it is totally incomprehensible.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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