intellectual
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In its first half, intellectual property-related income rose 88% to ¥62.7 billion due to the success of “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” its second animated film based on the popular videogame series.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Gone are the days of the critic playing dilettante, having intellectual conversations over martinis and cigarettes at the month’s salon for like-minded individuals.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
The executors for Michael Jackson’s estate began generating liquidity in 2011, including the sale of the singer’s Neverland Ranch in 2020 and the $750-million deal with Sony for intellectual property assets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
An OpenAI spokesperson said: "We're having productive conversations with rightsholders around the world about supporting creativity, including fan art, while protecting intellectual property and taking appropriate action in response to copyright complaints."
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Dark-haired and quick-witted, William had charming manners, hazel eyes, and a “strongly intellectual face.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Yet other scholars, activists and intellectuals have their takes, too, on the Harlem Renaissance’s many political movements and bids for Black self-determination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Born in Minnesota, Bill Niman found himself in Bolinas in 1969, where he befriended lefty intellectuals who were critical of factory farming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
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
“From my point of view, sociology should be producing intellectuals who think deeply and insightfully about the world,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 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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