brilliant
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Before the experiment, Fermi—a brilliant mathematician—calculated the chance that the reaction would blow up Chicago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Waters has taken comparisons to antifeminist activist Phyllis Schlafly as a compliment: After all, Schlafly was brilliant and confident and media savvy too.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Lili Anolik makes the case in her perfervid introduction: “The letters are everything you could want” and often “profound” and “frequently brilliant, invariably amusing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Film producer Nick Barton said he believes this "extraordinary story could make a really brilliant and successful movie".
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
His eyes sparked the way they did when he had a brilliant idea.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
The peasants, quivering with avarice, scuttle off to the appointed spot and dig up the treasure: an iron casket crammed with smoldering brilliants.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
At its head was the Sacred Golden Crown, covered with brilliants, emeralds, rubies and turquoises.
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
Cardinal Mazarin was the first who intrusted his Indian rose-diamonds to the hands of European cutters in order to have them shaped into brilliants.
From Stories about Famous Precious Stones by Orpen, Mrs Goddard
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