brilliant
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He did something absolutely brilliant, and it’s hysterical, and it works without words.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
The two musicians play, pluck, strike and strum their instrument to brilliant effect on a record that straddles jazz and contemporary classical.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
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
"JoJo has been really brilliant up in... I guess the Claudatorium, but I'm not sure what we call it now," says Flo Sayers, co-host of the Strictly on the Sofa podcast.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
A brilliant dawn broke through the morning dew, caressed every shadow, and lifted the fog to reveal a floor of white clouds dotting an azure sky.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
Archbishop Diaz stooped, puffed, fumbled, handed the brilliants pontifically to an attendant, and the fiesta went on.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
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
For her trouble the Turkish Government awarded her Turkey's highest aviation honor, a medal set with brilliants.
From Time Magazine Archive
My heart bounded with delight, when I at last saw the brilliants flash in my dark hair, mark the contour of my neck, and circle a waist slender as the form of a sylph.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
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