brilliant
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The community "were brilliant", she said, and pulled together to put out flames, using hoses in gardens, while waiting for fire crews who were dealing with other incidents.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Thank you, George, for some of your brilliant ideas on this great Military Complex/Ballroom!”
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Diversification almost always feels foolish right before it becomes brilliant.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Thirty-four years ago, a brilliant young hedge-fund manager helped engineer a $1 billion payday for his employer by betting a major currency would be devalued.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The most brilliant of the visions was the stars and moon spinning around each other in a glittering sky, an ode to the Gran’s real name, Knox—an ancient word that meant night.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
Other items: > An agate bowl mounted in gold, fine stones, brilliants and rubies, with two enameled gold sirens, bearing baskets of fruit, poised on the rim.
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
Suddenly, just before it was to be hoisted in place above the Virgin's portrait, sharp-eyed Archbishop Diaz saw two brilliants tumble to the altar.
From Time Magazine Archive
The peasants, quivering with avarice, scuttle off to the appointed spot and dig up the treasure: an iron casket crammed with smoldering brilliants.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I did not regard the gift as valuable for the brilliants and opals," continued he, "but as conveying the love of my mother; and surely Marjory cannot reject that love."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton
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