brainy

Example Sentences

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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

In 1978, the New Yorker called Keaton “one of the most comedically pure and brainy actresses in our midst.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

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

Sir Stephen Fry lived up to his brainy reputation over breakfast, by predicting the chessboard was back: "I could be a knight - oh, I already am," he joked.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

Why couldn’t even the strong, brainy, cold-proof Neanderthals survive our onslaught?

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari