genius
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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
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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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