brilliant
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Alternating chapters launch into Livia’s memories of the past, when she was, we learn, a brilliant pianist who received a full scholarship to the Indiana University School of Music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Buttler's brilliant boundary-hitting before being cut down by injury in the second ODI showed his best days are not necessarily all behind him.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
She was very bubbly and fun, but she had this brilliant mind and very high emotional intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Right-hander Emmet Sheehan, who made 22 starts this season, came out of the bullpen for the first time Sunday and was brilliant in his audition for the playoffs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
His were reddish-gold, dull in the shade under the bridge but brilliant in sunlight.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
Archbishop Diaz stooped, puffed, fumbled, handed the brilliants pontifically to an attendant, and the fiesta went on.
From Time Magazine Archive
She finally disclosed that she had made it herself out of some old tulle and brilliants she "found around the house" and it "represented absolutely nothing at all."
From Time Magazine Archive
Other items: > An agate bowl mounted in gold, fine stones, brilliants and rubies, with two enameled gold sirens, bearing baskets of fruit, poised on the rim.
From Time Magazine Archive
At its head was the Sacred Golden Crown, covered with brilliants, emeralds, rubies and turquoises.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was the re-cutting into brilliants of all the rose-diamonds belonging to the King of France.
From Stories about Famous Precious Stones by Mrs Goddard Orpen
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