I.Q.
Example Sentences
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“Ferris” still has many hallmarks of a DiCamillo story — small town simplicity, the slow pace of a hot summer, a trusted best friend, and an adorable dog with a freakishly high emotional I.Q.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 2024
He also spends a great deal of time thinking about Elizabeth, his crush, who sits a few rows ahead of him and who has an I.Q. of 256.
From New York Times • May 12, 2023
At age 11, Johnson was given an I.Q. score of 69, but in prison he read more good literature than the average student at Yale University, a mile and a half from his boyhood home.
From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2022
"Westworld" may have shed a few of its I.Q. points over the years, but it's still a decent shoot-em-up that gives us women fighting back and winning.
From Salon • Jun. 26, 2022
Reducing a complex intelligence or the economy to numbers on a scale, whether I.Q. or GNP, is myopic at best and many times simply ludicrous.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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