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
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
The presentation was designed to work on the emotions as well as the intellect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
While he learned very little of Yang’s personal life, he was often impressed by his intellect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
For Swann’s frequent moves from institution to institution hinted at an aspect of his personality that offset his blazing intellect: he had a tendency to rub his peers the wrong way.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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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
They are a development machine that employs some of the sport’s sharpest intellects.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2020
If that work is only accessible to somebody who doesn’t need $12,000 a year, then that keeps a whole spectrum of minds and voices and intellects out of the business.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2020
The astronauts, by background and by nature, resisted the computers and their ghostly intellects.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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