visionary
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There’s Big Ridley, the visionary filmmaker of large-scale epics who has spent nearly 50 years creating some of the most indelible worlds in modern movies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
“This visionary project reflects Tyson’s commitment to providing quality education and opportunities,” a 2024 news release for the school stated.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
She said the school would now look for "visionary individuals" who could bring "serious investment" to the project, as well as governments and local authorities.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Originally built in 1962, the home is described as having been “thoughtfully designed with a visionary architectural aesthetic inspired by Philippe Starck.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
But both failed projects were also visionary projections linked to larger expectations.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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L.A. has reciprocated by sending our visionaries to Salzburg, where director Peter Sellars and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, for instance, have been given the license and means to inspire a reinvention of musical and theatrical thinking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
“We have the benefit of being founded and led by Elon Musk, one of the great visionaries of our generation,” SpaceX touted in its IPO paperwork.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 5, 2026
What creative visionaries achieve with Legos is very different from Explosive Media’s slopaganda cartoons, to be clear.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026
The visionaries of the early Space Age didn’t worry much about solar radiation, coronal mass ejections, galactic cosmic rays, psychological stress from isolation, and cost-benefit ratios.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025
Nobody was admired more than so- called free soloists: visionaries who ascended alone, without rope or hardware.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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Common Senses: Vid, Vis ("See")
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