intelligent
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Sheep are not only intelligent, as someone observes, but they can be inspirational.
From Salon • May 17, 2026
Maybe there should be little surprise that Maverick McNealy, an intelligent but unheralded American who once considered snubbing golf for a business career, is leading the way.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
When his character contacts Léa Seydoux’s French plant expert, it becomes almost too much rapturously intelligent star wattage for one quietly poetic movie, even if these god-tier actors are just zooming and talking shop.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
No evidence has been produced of intelligent life beyond Earth.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
Next morning, Miss Scatcherd wrote in conspicuous characters on a piece of pasteboard the word “Slattern,” and bound it like a phylactery round Helen’s large, mild, intelligent, and benign-looking forehead.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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