intellect
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It’s a battle of will, and intellect, and at “Dune: The Experience,” the hope is it will be fun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
His commanding officer praised Major Wilks as "a man of great intellect, yet he remained a mate to those he served with".
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Aksia, a research and advisory firm to institutions including pensions, family offices and sovereign-wealth funds, made note of Aschenbrenner’s intellect and network in a March 2025 assessment for clients after meeting with him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Vance’s public arrogance certainly suggests he believes himself equal to the former president in both intellect and charm.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
It was a small-minded and ludicrous insult, sure, but his mocking of my intellect, his marginalizing of my young self, carried with it a larger dismissiveness.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
The libertarian intellects of Web 1.0 lost their place to cringe culture; subsequently, zoomers crowded out millennials on the information superhighway.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2024
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
“I think it behooves us as public policymakers and public officeholders to extend our intellects as broadly as we can,” Mills said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 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
It is an infiltration of intellects, an inflammation.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing intellect
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