genius

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“If I have a genius for anything,” McMurtry told a friend on one occasion, “it’s for being found.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

The bass genius Thundercat has, to his regret, been spending way too much time absorbing bad news on his phone.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

Steve Jobs, a driven marketing genius, and Steve Wozniak, who invented the Apple computer, revolutionized how people use technology in the internet age and built a company now worth more than $3.6 trillion.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

After the idea percolated up from Linda to Clay-and-Buck and then to Fox News, Trump thought it was a stroke of genius.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2026

The appreciation of drawings as works of art dates from the Renaissance, when the artist’s creative genius first came to be valued and paper began to be made in quantity.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson