brilliant
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Stafford Hopkins is good-looking, brilliant, successful and stinking rich.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 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
I had Dominic Calvert-Lewin in my Fantasy team and he should have scored a couple, while it took a brilliant goalline tackle from Lisandro Martinez to deny Ao Tanaka.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
The artists’ achievements in color and composition are on brilliant display in exhibitions at two New York galleries.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
But I had a feeling that brain fever might’ve just been another way of saying uncooperative, or outspoken, or brilliant.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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