brilliant
Example Sentences
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At the beginning of the war, I filmed brilliant young men tinkering in forest huts, using 3-D printers to build their first “birds of fire.”
Ehrlich’s life is a lesson that brilliant men can become captive to bad ideas that become intellectual fashion and do great harm.
In the stormy light, the trees were a brilliant green.
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The San Fernando Valley native is a brilliant director who has made sprawling, messy epics about imperfect people synonymous with his name, like John Ford with Westerns or A24 with art house flicks.
From Los Angeles Times
Is it a tremendously brilliant show of ignorance?
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.