intellect
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Some feared that a game that had been long associated with intellect and creativity was losing its soul.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
The presentation was designed to work on the emotions as well as the intellect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Books are super fuel for the human mind, the mightiest intellect on earth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Instead of proposing Waddingham as a Bond co-star, she’s the expertly skilled agent flanked by a best friend with an equally formidable intellect – the Moneypenny to her 007.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
“We have seen,” Terman concluded, with more than a touch of disappointment, “that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.”
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
You’ll begin to sense Becker and Fagen’s presence in the music, free-floating intellects winking behind their shades, welcoming you in without letting on that they’re glad you’re here.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2023
Ariel and Sanam are driven by the desire to prove themselves extraordinary, that they might even be capable of saving the world through their intellects.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2022
But when we are “protected” from challenges to what we think we know, our intellects stagnate in the bubble of agreed beliefs and assumed facts.
From Washington Post ● May 19, 2022
“I think Bill had one of the largest intellects I have ever encountered. And, I have encountered many,” Strider wrote on Facebook.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2021
And yet when he says, “I am from outer space,” some of you actually shut your eyes, abase your intellects, and believe!
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing intellect
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