brilliant

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"We put a squad together just to try and get out of this league. The lads have been absolutely brilliant, and the manager has been a breath of fresh air," Hodge told BBC Radio Humberside.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

"It's brilliant that, after we have invested devolved funding to make a difference that people across the West can see and feel, the government is rolling out Kids Go Free nationally this August!"

From BBC • May 21, 2026

And from a comedy perspective, the fictional Colbert was a brilliant creation, a parody of the decade’s growing right-wing punditry and media figures who embraced “truthiness” over truth.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

But Mary is different from the superpowered variety of the trope, or the brilliant outcasts in teen movies like “Mean Girls,” “Sixteen Candles,” “The Edge of Seventeen” or “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.”

From Salon • May 20, 2026

After thousands of hours of calculations, countless dead ends, and a few brilliant mental leaps, they’d worked out Enigma’s internal wiring.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin