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intellect

[in-tl-ekt] / ˈɪn tlˌɛkt /


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And right now, that intellect needs all the collective nutrition it can find.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Books are super fuel for the human mind, the mightiest intellect on earth.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

It added: "Ann was unafraid to express her unwavering convictions, formed through her Roman Catholic faith. She had a sharp intellect and was a dedicated public servant."

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

O’Herlihy’s many L.A. buildings are full of motion and discovery, reflecting his restless intellect and optimism, a sense that even the most compromised urban site was capable of producing something valuable.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

It was a small-minded and ludicrous insult, sure, but his mocking of my intellect, his marginalizing of my young self, carried with it a larger dismissiveness.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

You’ll begin to sense Becker and Fagen’s presence in the music, free-floating intellects winking behind their shades, welcoming you in without letting on that they’re glad you’re here.

From Los Angeles Times May 4, 2023

“I think it behooves us as public policymakers and public officeholders to extend our intellects as broadly as we can,” Mills said.

From Seattle Times Feb. 13, 2023

But when we are “protected” from challenges to what we think we know, our intellects stagnate in the bubble of agreed beliefs and assumed facts.

From Washington Post May 19, 2022

If that work is only accessible to somebody who doesn’t need $12,000 a year, then that keeps a whole spectrum of minds and voices and intellects out of the business.

From Slate Sep. 28, 2020

The astronauts, by background and by nature, resisted the computers and their ghostly intellects.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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