brilliant
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"Hyron was just a brilliant guy and a brilliant team-mate," said Sale director of rugby Alex Sanderson.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
“Wives” shares some of the same impulses of Caryl Churchill’s brilliant, time-hopping feminist comedy “Top Girls,” but the comparison isn’t really a fair one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
While its telescopes continued scanning the distant universe, unusually generous winter rains brought the surrounding outback to life in a brilliant display of wildflowers.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
This is the brilliant way writer-director Jesse Eisenberg thrusts us into his third — and best — feature, “The Debut,” screening at this year’s New York Film Festival and premiering in theaters December 11.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
“The thing I can’t figure out is how she was able to do it. Make you, I mean. On her own. She was brilliant, but this is beyond. You are...well...you’re remarkable.”
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
Hung against her poop like a great comb of brilliants, a huge electric sign F-R-A-N-C-E made the French Liner France a vessel unique as she moved through her Mediterranean cruise last' week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Archbishop Diaz stooped, puffed, fumbled, handed the brilliants pontifically to an attendant, and the fiesta went on.
From Time Magazine Archive
At its head was the Sacred Golden Crown, covered with brilliants, emeralds, rubies and turquoises.
From Time Magazine Archive
For her trouble the Turkish Government awarded her Turkey's highest aviation honor, a medal set with brilliants.
From Time Magazine Archive
The diamonds were paste, and Mr. Wogan at last understood why Lady Oxford, when she gave her miniature set with brilliants to the Parson, had been so anxious that he should never part with it.
From Parson Kelly by Andrew Lang
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