brilliant
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Chapman proceeded to build a series of brilliant sports cars, win a lot of Formula One championships and erase millions in investments before his death in 1982.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
"It's absolutely brilliant," affirms Arsenal season ticket-holder Major.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Over 104 games, a bunch of questionable VAR calls, another heartbreaking downfall by Mexico and a brilliant goal by Spain’s Ferran Torres, I learned why soccer is the world’s most popular sport.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
WSJ: What should you do if you’re not the aunt of a brilliant engineer?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Ama finishes the insignia and steps back as it glows a brilliant purple.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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
Five days a week, 14 hours a day, he squints through nine newspapers and bends over his typewriter like a jeweler, chipping and polishing at the hard little brilliants for his program.
From Time Magazine Archive
The peasants, quivering with avarice, scuttle off to the appointed spot and dig up the treasure: an iron casket crammed with smoldering brilliants.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their ear-cylinders were gold; but instead of being open tubes, as commonly worn at the capital, they were closed in front, and set with one large cut diamond, ruby, or emerald, surrounded by smaller brilliants.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various
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