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genius

[jeen-yuhs] / ˈdʒin jəs /


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But however perfect the name, it has nothing to do with some genius of a marketer marrying the then-new rock-’n’-roll craze with the old Victrola record player brand.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 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

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

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

When Pauling himself later died of cancer aged 93, he was held up as a classic case of the “halo effect”: being a genius in one field doesn’t guarantee wisdom in another.

From Science Daily Aug. 7, 2026

He looked at her like she was a genius.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

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

But wisdom and experience, the true genii, appear in the form of an aged magician, who has forgotten the beatings of that precious thing, the human heart.

From Delusion, or The Witch of New England by Eliza Buckminster Lee

But corporate life is still corporate, even in artistic professions that give creative geniuses some leeway for antics.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 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

Springsteen called the musician a writer in the lineage of "geniuses" and "natural rebels" like Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin and Bob Dylan.

From BBC Mar. 12, 2026

Then Lori heard about a scholarship sponsored by a literary society for the student who created the best work of art inspired by one of the geniuses of the English language.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls




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