1
as in genius
a very smart person
many of our most renowned thinkers gathered for the symposium
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as in mind
the part of a person that feels, thinks, perceives, wills, and especially reasons
loves crossword puzzles, bridge, and other pastimes that makes her use the old thinker
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Noun
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Between them, the gangly mods kept alive the fading tradition of feuding musical geniuses, a path that Paul McCartney and John Lennon had paved before them.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
28 Aug. 2025 -
As Cal-Berkeley professor Enrico Moretti has long articulated, the genius of high-end construction and job creation can’t be limited to the headline jobs.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Three of the five players who got in at 64 was enough to wonder which cup was on their minds.—
Doug Ferguson,
Baltimore Sun,
22 Aug. 2025
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While enjoying a lunch of some of my favorite vegetables Barbara Rolls came to mind.—
Sheah Rarback,
Miami Herald,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The Emerald City, where Dorothy and Co. trek to visit the all-powerful wizard, is vast, striking and very, very green.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
30 Aug. 2025
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After fulfilling the accidental want of a girl named Vira, Christmas, winter symbols, and the magical powers of the wizards, disappear from people’s memories.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
29 Aug. 2025
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Penny Blue was walking up the stairs of her Union Hall, Va. home in 2013 when a blood vessel burst in her brain.—
Sarah D. Wire,
USA Today,
25 Aug. 2025
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He was diagnosed with cerebral palsy from the brain injury and had a feeding tube placed.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Just his razor-sharp intellect and the motivation to work hard.—
Rich Tabaka,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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And for those of us who’ve built our identities around propositional knowing, our intellect and our cleverness, this shift doesn’t just feel professional.—
Chris Schembra,
Rolling Stone,
30 July 2025
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Hooker believes the bombing of Hamburg, Operation Gomorrah, drove Lagerfeld to escape into his creative psyche.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
29 Aug. 2025
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These moments help rewire the emotional circuitry away from validation-seeking and back toward genuine connection, what the psyche is truly longing for beneath the performance. 5.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Delimitros said one of the truck’s side view mirrors struck her in the head, causing minor injuries.—
David Hernandez,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
19 July 2017
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Cal Fire representatives said the current parking mess has already impacted them because the driveway to their station enters the highway not far from the trail head.—
J. Harry Jones,
Ramona Sentinel,
19 July 2017
Noun
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There are hints throughout the film that Elizabeth may have been an intelligence agent.—
Ralphie Aversa,
USA Today,
29 Aug. 2025
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This biomimetic approach to AI development would position Malaysia to export not just technological products, but technological philosophies — ways of thinking about intelligence that emerge from ecological rather than industrial metaphors.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Thinker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thinker. Accessed 4 Sep. 2025.
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