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Noun
The roll call of films ranges from the highbrow to the decidedly grungy, the menu of a true movie fanatic. Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023 Tár is its highbrow counterpart, teasing and celebrating the same personal crisis and class issues. Armond White, National Review, 27 Jan. 2023 But in the pandemic’s wake, the chief human resources officer has morphed into a highbrow position, working with CEOs to drive attraction and retention among a myriad of other talent operations. Paolo Confino, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2023 Margot Robbie, playing Barbie, is clad in an exact re-creation of the original Barbie’s outfit; Gerwig is clearly thinking about the interplay between highbrow and lowbrow, between art and commercialism. Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2022 See All Example Sentences for highbrow
Recent Examples of Synonyms for highbrow
Adjective
  • Iran has cultivated an astonishing intellectual and artistic depth with far fewer resources than many other nations.
    Rebecca Ruth Gould, JSTOR Daily, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Framed as a biography of Jensen Huang, the only CEO Nvidia has ever had, the book is also something more interesting and revealing: a window onto the intellectual, cultural, and economic ecosystem that has led to the emergence of superpowerful AI.
    James Surowiecki, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Connelly put skilled and cerebral players around Jokić and Jamal Murray, with the occasional defensive stopper.
    Sam Amick, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
  • In the cerebral sign of Gemini — curiosity, communication and adaptability — Jupiter opens a world of possibilities.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale and dissemination of bogus scholarly research.
    Cyril Labbé, The Conversation, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Federal law prohibits universities from discussing individual students' disciplinary records, but the University takes these violations of our rules and scholarly norms seriously.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 30 Jan. 2025

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