intellectual

Example Sentences

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The state, once India's intellectual and commercial capital, had drifted through decades of industrial decline and political fatigue.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

Faculty and students have also raised worries about bias, creativity, accuracy and whether AI systems will replace forms of intellectual and professional work that colleges have long trained students to perform.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

“I wanted conversations with like-minded women that were intellectual but fun. And talking about books seemed to be the ideal way to achieve that.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

Wells, the British author and intellectual, called radio “inferior” entertainment that should be listened to “only by the sick, the lonely and the suffering.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

But he was a natural contrarian, a born critic, whose fullest energies manifested themselves in the act of doing intellectual isometric exercises against the fixed objects presented by someone else's ideas.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis