intellectual
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He also noted that Churchill Downs made an $85-million offer this spring to purchase the intellectual property rights to the Preakness, but the state of Maryland matched it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
I am not here to debate the merits of Hong’s assertion, mostly because I don’t really possess the hoity-toity intellectual hardware to do so.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
He expects AI monetization to expand beyond chip manufacturing into inspection equipment, advanced packaging materials, silicon intellectual property, and silicon photonics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
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
In Galileo’s view the intellectual tools provided by geometry were the only tools required by a scientist.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
Coffin, the co-creator and voice of the Minions, was born in France to Franco-Indonesian intellectuals who only turned on the TV for old movies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Caliph Abd al-Rahman III had a Jewish minister who imported a number of intellectuals from Babylonia.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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