genius

Rothbard blamed Smith’s celebrity for blotting out the better work of abler minds, but Turgot had kept his genius mainly to himself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

He compared it to Wall Street’s genius creation, all those years ago, of those mortgage-backed securities that allowed them to leverage endless empty condos in the Las Vegas desert.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

In British politics, Hilton earned a reputation as a zany but genius marketer who pushed the Conservative Party to embrace same-sex marriage and climate-friendlier policies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Al-Zaydi described Luka as an "evil genius" and "a fox of a man".

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Besides, Emma had eaten the cake, too, and she hadn’t become an instant genius.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

And how could they be in any art that is, above and beyond all else, a celebration of genii loci, spirits of place?

From New York Times ● May 4, 2023

It turns out that swifts, beloved genii locorum of bright summer streets, are just as much nocturnal creatures of thick summer darkness.

From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2020

The registration spells the Latin word "genii", meaning magical person or being.

From BBC ● May 15, 2011

"We could become a nation of typographic genii through a litany of design atrocities," Bents reasoned.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 16, 2010

These forms were the genii of sleep and death, represented in art as crowned with poppies or amaranths, and sometimes holding a funeral urn or a reversed torch.

From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline) Guerber

The two geniuses who ruled the pitch, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, may have been in Spain, but the scholars of the dugout were all in England.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

But at that time it created a problem because you had these critics and these NBC executives; they were riding high because they had “Seinfeld,” they felt like they were geniuses.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

Collect all the geniuses of this planet, and that’s what Miles is in one note.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026

Along with its eat-the-rich framework, it also belongs to a pleasing subgenre of movies about blue-collar guys who are secretly geniuses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Over the course of the chapters ahead, I’m going to introduce you to one kind of outlier after another: to geniuses, business tycoons, rock stars, and software programmers.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell