intellectual
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Professors are eager to work with student veterans and believe the life experience veterans bring to the classroom is crucial to the intellectual diversity of institutions like Caltech.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Hunt was the intellectual anchor of that leg, which is why his resignation is news.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Irving and its peers employ a so-called management services organization, or MSO, model, which keeps the legal side separate from the piece that houses technology and any intellectual property.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
They will visit a naval base, where Burnham will announce the sharing of the intellectual property behind the UK's new "Stone Cloak" electronic warfare system, enabling Ukraine to produce the technology at scale.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
But despite his mien of seriousness and inapproachability, Bronstein was friendly, animated, and liked by virtually all the other players, owing to his cordiality, immense knowledge of the game, and a certain intellectual eccentricity.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
The document relied heavily on academic contributors, armchair intellectuals with zero industry experience, whose abstract theories distracted from the fundamental cause.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Otero Alcantara, a self-taught performance artist, sculptor and painter, rose to prominence in 2020 as leader of the San Isidro protest movement of artists and intellectuals.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Instead, she places Black Americans, Black intellectuals, and Black constitutional struggle where they have always belonged: at the center of the 14th Amendment.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
Beginning in the 1870s, atheism and indifference to religion became popular, especially among younger intellectuals.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
The study of variation and dip evidently depended on collaboration between navigators and intellectuals, but so did the whole science of cartography.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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