brilliant
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Similarly, while McKinney’s camp paints a lawman of singular personal ability, Roy supporters describe her as brilliant, driven, and eager to lift the best and brightest around her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Especially brilliant are the contributions of puppet designer James Ortiz, particularly the menacing tendrils that encase Willie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
"But I see this as a race between our kind of obstinate, greedy selves and our brilliant, innovative selves," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
What better analogy for Coppola and the bitter response to her brilliant, evergreen third film?
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
His eyes sparked the way they did when he had a brilliant idea.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
At its head was the Sacred Golden Crown, covered with brilliants, emeralds, rubies and turquoises.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Suddenly, just before it was to be hoisted in place above the Virgin's portrait, sharp-eyed Archbishop Diaz saw two brilliants tumble to the altar.
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
The jagged edge of it glittered as though incrusted with tiny brilliants; but the fragment was quite cold, showing that it had travelled far since the burst.
From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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