genius
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All of which eventually brought Mr. Steele around to the genius of the American founding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
“I’ve always liked Richard Nixon,” Vance said, calling him a political genius.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Sheen’s love for the Eucharist was the spring from which his genius flowed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
“Her genius really does live in the recesses of her disturbed brain.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Her teacher had scowled at her and said, You think you’re a genius, or something?
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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 presiding genii of this particular work include Adrienne Rich, Sigmund Freud, Alice Miller and, above all, Virginia Woolf and the British psychoanalyst DW Winnicott.
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2012
The registration spells the Latin word "genii", meaning magical person or being.
From BBC ● May 15, 2011
To it the attendant genii offer the pine cone and basket.
From Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other by Thomas Inman
Owen Thiele: Ben, Rebecca and I huddled a lot, and I listened to everything they said because they’re geniuses and also my bosses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
Like the billionaire geniuses who created social media that wound up depressing, dumbing down and dehumanizing civilization, the motives of these companies were purely financial.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
"He is a player blessed by God. Football geniuses have something special, and he has it," De la Fuente said.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Their system didn’t work and couldn’t grow, and the geniuses were denied a stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
“I am. All geniuses deal with bugs in the system.”
From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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