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as in wizard
a very smart person
the 16-year-old college graduate was considered to be a genius
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as in talent
a special and usually inborn ability
had a genius for remembering long strings of numbers had a genius for saying the wrong thing, no matter what the social situation
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as in aptitude
a habitual attraction to some activity or thing
a genius for gambling over his head
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as in self
the set of qualities that makes a person, a group of people, or a thing different from others
putting the needs of the individual before those of society is alien to the genius of the Japanese people
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as in manifestation
a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality)
the giant tortoise would seem to be the very genius of the unfathomable ancientness that one associates with the Galápagos Islands
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Recent Examples of genius
One stroke of genius here is that the girls receive no coaching.
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
The fifth season cast also includes Rick Gonzalez as undercover expert Bobby Reyes and Ainsley Seiger playing tech genius Jet Slootmaekers.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
Bernstein, an outspoken American Jewish conductor renowned for iconic compositions like West Side Story and Candide, was widely admired for his artistic genius and fervent political activism, including marching with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr during the 1960s.
—Court Stroud, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
Our tour guide for this near-apocalyptic wasteland is Michelle (Brown), a young woman who lost her parents and genius younger brother, Christopher (Woody Norman), in a car accident years ago.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2025
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
The fifth season cast also includes Rick Gonzalez as undercover expert Bobby Reyes and Ainsley Seiger playing tech genius Jet Slootmaekers.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
Bernstein, an outspoken American Jewish conductor renowned for iconic compositions like West Side Story and Candide, was widely admired for his artistic genius and fervent political activism, including marching with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr during the 1960s.
—Court Stroud, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
Our tour guide for this near-apocalyptic wasteland is Michelle (Brown), a young woman who lost her parents and genius younger brother, Christopher (Woody Norman), in a car accident years ago.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for genius
Noun
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Can your brain be trained to become a chart-predicting wizard?—
Dividend Channel,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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See It, Feel It, Buy It Six years after The Who released Tommy, the British rockers followed it with a 1975 film starring Roger Daltrey as the titular pinball wizard.—
Joe Lynch,
Billboard,
26 Mar. 2025
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This celebration of cinema showcased 93 films from 21 countries, accompanied by an array of film talent and culinary stars.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
23 Mar. 2025
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In some cases, management talent is brought in from the outside but typically there will also be internal promotions.—
Trevor Clawson,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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Officials in the Navy recruit heavily at a handful of tech schools, including M.I.T., Georgia Tech, and Carnegie Mellon, to find students with the knowledge and the aptitude to carry out such demanding tasks as operating nuclear reactors on aircraft carriers.—
Dexter Filkins,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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This is different from notions of strengths and weaknesses, personality, aptitude or things like that.—
Michael B. Horn,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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Alex has to hold on with both hands in order to keep her preggo self in one spot, but we’re distracted from the terror by her voiceover of the fan fiction — er, journal to Spencer — that she’s been keeping.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
2 Mar. 2025
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Heidi Klum is the face of self care brand PosheEra.—
Mikelle Street,
WWD,
19 Feb. 2025
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Multi-day vacations remained out of reach for most working people, and many of them resented the upper classes’ summering as a manifestation of inequality.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Mar. 2025
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Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.—
Rachel Wolf,
Fox News,
22 Mar. 2025
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Good American Family is about Natalia Grace, a child adopted by Kristine and Michael Barnett who already have three children of their own, one of whom has autism and a genius-level intellect.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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The main theme is not just about the religious persecution of the truth, but rather the conflict between the church and the pursuit of knowledge and humanity’s intellect.—
Rafael Motamayor,
IndieWire,
15 Mar. 2025
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Even so, Australia has a knack for coming out of a ho-hum kind of day nicely, and the team is in second place, three points back from Canada.—
Andrew Rice,
The Athletic,
22 Mar. 2025
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The 17-year-old, who goes by Chris, has a knack for electronic systems and computers.—
The Star,
Kansas City Star,
22 Mar. 2025
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The combination of IoT and AI enables connected devices to collect, analyze and act on data in real-time.—
Rahul Saluja,
Forbes,
26 Dec. 2024
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Just in time for Christmas, certain members of Congress are hard at work in their policy shops, fashioning a massive lump of cybersecurity coal with which to gift American users of electronic devices.—
David Williams,
National Review,
26 Dec. 2024
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“Genius.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/genius. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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