genius
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I was a little taken aback by the clumsiness of the comedy, which makes even “Saturday Night Live” of recent vintage seem like a work of genius.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Their late, beloved Dolly Parton was a self-invented, child-free artistic genius and unabashed sex symbol in a devoted but open-minded marriage, who brought the lamplight of literature to children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
He portrays Mr. David, for all the comedian’s considerable idiosyncrasies, as an indisputable comic genius, a doting father and a loyal friend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Jama continued: "Chaos, regardless. chaos, regardless. Bella, you're a genius, but you gotta go."
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
His instinctive genius lay in unearthing patterns—systems of organization—that lay behind the specimens; not in Kingdoms and Orders, but in kingdoms of order that ran through the biological world.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
And how could they be in any art that is, above and beyond all else, a celebration of genii loci, spirits of place?
From New York Times ● May 4, 2023
It turns out that swifts, beloved genii locorum of bright summer streets, are just as much nocturnal creatures of thick summer darkness.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2020
The registration spells the Latin word "genii", meaning magical person or being.
From BBC ● May 15, 2011
"We could become a nation of typographic genii through a litany of design atrocities," Bents reasoned.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 16, 2010
Jann, jan, n. one of the lowest of the five orders of Mohammedan genii.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Plus, what AI content does to our brains, Meta’s mountain of lawsuits, the million-dollar talent wars for math geniuses and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
But at that time it created a problem because you had these critics and these NBC executives; they were riding high because they had “Seinfeld,” they felt like they were geniuses.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
"He is a player blessed by God. Football geniuses have something special, and he has it," De la Fuente said.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Collect all the geniuses of this planet, and that’s what Miles is in one note.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026
“I’ll just get my things packed,” I said, “and we’ll take off—just you and me—a couple of man-made geniuses on the run.”
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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