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intellect

[in-tl-ekt] / ˈɪn tlˌɛkt /


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At the Candidates, one opponent tried to lead Sindarov away from the common lines that grandmasters tend to study, hoping that he could outwit the 20-year-old in a battle of instinct and intellect, not memorization.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Mora said Araghchi had deep knowledge of the nuclear file and a cultivated intellect.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

"Yuriy was very smart. She really won him over with her intellect," Nina said.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

This show looks at photographs of Gardner—both consciously staged and candid, and drawn from all periods of her life—to try to create a fuller picture of the woman and her intellect.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 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




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