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genius

[jeen-yuhs] / ˈdʒin jəs /


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Or, if you prefer softer spuds, Danny also has a genius tip for leveling up your potato salad.

From Slate Sep. 4, 2026

The cancellation has reanimated a longstanding debate about creative genius: Can the artist be separated from the art?

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

The things he can do with a football are absolute genius.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

She is a genius at looking and listening.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

Henry, too, was said to be wealthy; what’s more, he was a linguistic genius.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

And how could they be in any art that is, above and beyond all else, a celebration of genii loci, spirits of place?

From New York Times May 4, 2023

It turns out that swifts, beloved genii locorum of bright summer streets, are just as much nocturnal creatures of thick summer darkness.

From New York Times Jul. 29, 2020

The registration spells the Latin word "genii", meaning magical person or being.

From BBC May 15, 2011

"We could become a nation of typographic genii through a litany of design atrocities," Bents reasoned.

From The Guardian Oct. 16, 2010

Men who represent not the genii, but the genius of the great dry sea of sand and silence.

From Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study by Arthur Glyn Leonard

The two geniuses who ruled the pitch, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, may have been in Spain, but the scholars of the dugout were all in England.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

But at that time it created a problem because you had these critics and these NBC executives; they were riding high because they had “Seinfeld,” they felt like they were geniuses.

From Salon Jul. 5, 2026

"He is a player blessed by God. Football geniuses have something special, and he has it," De la Fuente said.

From BBC Jun. 4, 2026

Collect all the geniuses of this planet, and that’s what Miles is in one note.

From Los Angeles Times May 25, 2026

It's where the professors and the local geniuses and all the rest of the university creeps send their kids.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements




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