intellectual
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Professor Emily Hudson, intellectual property specialist at Oxford University, says copyright laws in the UK are different to those in the US.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The Year 8 student from Western Australia has Down Syndrome – a genetic condition caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21 which leads to physical and intellectual disabilities.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Then there’s the need to keep corporate intellectual property safe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
He also noted that Churchill Downs made an $85-million offer this spring to purchase the intellectual property rights to the Preakness, but the state of Maryland matched it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
On the Continent resistance to Newtonianism continued into the 1740s and involved key intellectual figures such as Huygens, Leibniz and Fontenelle.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Frances Stonor Saunders’s “The Cultural Cold War” moves beyond outright falsehoods and forgeries to reveal how the Central Intelligence Agency secretly supported a wide-ranging collection of artists and intellectuals between 1947 and 1967.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Otero Alcantara, a self-taught performance artist, sculptor and painter, rose to prominence in 2020 as leader of the San Isidro protest movement of artists and intellectuals.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Instead, she places Black Americans, Black intellectuals, and Black constitutional struggle where they have always belonged: at the center of the 14th Amendment.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
Beginning in the 1870s, atheism and indifference to religion became popular, especially among younger intellectuals.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
It was obvious that he was going to have one of his rages—but Agravaine was one of those luckless intellectuals who are too proud to give in to brute force.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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