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brilliance

[bril-yuhns] / ˈbrɪl yəns /




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Thanks to the visionary brilliance of Vanguard founder Jack Bogle and decades of strong returns, indexing is eating more and more of the market each year.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026

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

Manchester City's challenge may depend on Doku continuing to produce moments of brilliance to drag his side towards the finish line.

From BBC • May 9, 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

“Despite the fact that he was in the Pentagon and I was against the war,” she later said, “I really saw his brilliance and his courage and his integrity.”

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin




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