How to Use intelligence in a Sentence

intelligence

noun
  • She impressed us with her superior intelligence.
  • Matter of fact, the president gets a daily brief of all of the intelligence hot spots around the world.
    CBS News, 21 Apr. 2024
  • Came in here and lit up things on the special teams with his speed, his toughness, his intelligence.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Ted: A lot of it has to do with a misconception of what intelligence even is.
    The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
  • According to Ukrainian intelligence, Russia had a stockpile of about 50 Kinzhals at the start of the war, and has used about a dozen of them.
    David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2023
  • The corpse was dressed as an officer of the Royal Marines and fake war plans were placed in his pockets for German intelligence to find.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Put your emotions aside and let your intelligence decide what’s best for you.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024
  • The real deal means people with the heart and intelligence to be selfless and effective.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 31 July 2023
  • Later, we were tailed by a unit from the Taliban intelligence section.
    Victor Blue, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The first is that these models appear to have the intelligence and creativity of a human.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
  • It's used by the American intelligence agencies, by the Italian police and by Hunt's team.
    Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
  • Overall, the novel struck me as far more cynical about the mission of the intelligence services than even le Carré tends to be.
    Laura Kipnis, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The emotional intelligence in her music and the soul in her voice captured the attention of her colleagues as well.
    Katelina Eccleston, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2023
  • In the comics, Sabra is a mutant agent for the Israeli intelligence service that has super strength, speed, and healing powers.
    EW.com, 17 July 2024
  • The president's intelligence hub is located on the ground floor of the West Wing — one level beneath the Oval Office.
    Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 28 May 2024
  • The project was funded by the Kremlin and run by a Russian intelligence officer.
    Shannon Bond, NPR, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Viewed in this way, intelligence is what gives an organism the best chance to survive and thrive in an environment.
    Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 14 Sep. 2023
  • And both of those also are CBP operations, leveraging the intelligence game through the first two.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 July 2023
  • The feature was found in Twitter’s code by product intelligence firm Watchful.ai.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The most effective leaders learn how to let go of this pressure and break the habit of needing to be right or prove their intelligence—not just for their teams, but for their own wellbeing.
    Sana Lall-Trail and Elizabeth Weingarten, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The operation, in other words, was sloppy—not the work of a crack intelligence agency.
    Daniel Block, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Axios reports that Israeli intelligence tracked the origin of the file back to a 2003 al-Qaeda manual.
    Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 21 Oct. 2023
  • And the first section is all the garbage that's poured into his brain every day by the Russian intelligence services and the career bureaucracy.
    CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
  • In the debate, Biden displayed a striking deficit of fluid intelligence.
    Ezekiel J. Emanuel, The Atlantic, 5 July 2024
  • The strategy has, again and again, drawn outrage for its reliance on sometimes flawed intelligence and civilian death count.
    Lynzy Billing, ProPublica, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Morell had also sent an email the evening prior, on Oct. 18, to a number of former intelligence officials.
    Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 5 May 2023
  • Is there a real utility to adding machine intelligence to a grill?
    Condé Nast, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2024
  • China and Cuba have agreed to establish a signals intelligence base in the island country, just 100 miles from the U.S. mainland.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
  • The Russian hacking group, a unit of the country's GRU military intelligence agency, has in fact carried out many of the most disruptive cyberattacks of the past decade.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2024
  • No one knows if he’s been abducted, recruited by a foreign intelligence agency, or murdered.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2024

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