brilliant
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Edmund is said to be brilliant but we mostly get evidence of his pretensions and “annoying air of lazy authority.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
I had Dominic Calvert-Lewin in my Fantasy team and he should have scored a couple, while it took a brilliant goalline tackle from Lisandro Martinez to deny Ao Tanaka.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
I loved their 'Invincibles' era but also Arteta was brilliant for us.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
The artists’ achievements in color and composition are on brilliant display in exhibitions at two New York galleries.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
The thing’s enormous, eight feet high and wide, with webs of wires and rows of rotating rotors—like something the Son of Frankenstein might have invented, if he’d been a brilliant code breaker.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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