brainy
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Yudkowsky’s acolytes grew into the rationalist movement, a group of brainy, often libertarian-leaning outsiders who revel in logical debate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
In a World Cup where the boffins with their big brainy heads and their super computers are working overtime on who might play who in the last 32, there are other calculations worth conjuring with.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
Less known-but similarly compelling—is the brainy leap that’s happening with my best sport, eating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
The former vice president’s steely resolve was captured years later in “Vice,” a 2018 biographical drama in which Christian Bale portrayed Cheney as a brainy yet uncompromisingly uncharismatic leader.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2025
From then on, we have what sounds like one of those exaggerated fairy-stories of success, but in reality it was the result of tremendous hard and brainy work by those two friends.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
“Midnight Suns” comes from 2K Games’ Firaxis studio, known for brainier challenges like “Civilization” and “XCOM.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
Though they lack nerve cells, sponges have some of the same specialized genes for synapses that brainier creatures possess, studies have shown.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 3, 2021
Even you acknowledge this when the live studio audience doesn't laugh at one of your brainier opening punchlines.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2021
"It is gonna be a no brainier," Hong said.
From Reuters ● Sep. 13, 2021
That's because we're so much brainier than most people.
From Changing Winds A Novel by St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine
One of the brainiest, funniest comedies of the year..
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2025
"We now know that some of the brainiest people around have or had dyslexia, including Einstein!" he told BookTrust in 2020.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2023
The Black-owned weekly newspaper New York Amsterdam News once described her as “one of the brightest and brainiest of the undiscovered teevee personalities.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
The brainiest organization in baseball suddenly looks like the most foolish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2021
‘Human beans is not understanding them at all. Not even their brainiest prossefors is understanding them. Has you seen enough?’
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
