brilliance
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“Yet here is this singular brilliance, consigned to a small span of years. He places the two side by side in the scales.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
I’d spent my youth defending “The Devil Wears Prada” with my life, trying to convince detractors weaponizing the words “chick flick” about its brilliance since the wise, old age of 12.
From Salon • May 1, 2026
Senior historian at English Heritage, Howard Spencer, described her as "a scientist of exceptional brilliance and determination".
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
The future of Apple is being entrusted to a company veteran said to combine hardware brilliance with "the soul of an innovator."
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
She had just met a small girl who possessed, or so it seemed to her, quite extraordinary qualities of brilliance.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
Vocabulary lists containing brilliance
Brown Girl Dreaming
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ance, -ence
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