brilliance
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Corvette, a promising and hard-working designer herself who aspires to Christie’s brilliance, is tormented by nightmares of rich people complaining about the generation who “can’t expect everything to be handed to them.”
From Salon • May 22, 2026
From that foundation, using a "six-second rule" to regain lost possession, Guardiola has produced brushstrokes of tactical brilliance that his peers accept were ingenious and revolutionary.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
“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
“That tension — between brilliance and controversy, innovation and scrutiny — is precisely what continues to draw audiences back, and what will likely shape both the film’s reception and its broader cultural impact.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
It seemed as though their brilliance must shine through his rags and someone cry out, “Now here is a poor man carrying an emperor’s treasure!”
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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Brown Girl Dreaming
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ance, -ence
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