genius
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"His genius was the ability to interview you as if he was just being curious, but actually he had researched you... he knew exactly where he wanted to take you."
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
But during these trying times, Lawson’s revamped Caesar salad is pure genius.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
It is a work of engineering genius, but it’s expensive to build one and it seems not to have gone into production.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
A tight quarter-final between Argentina and Switzerland was broken open by a moment of genius from Julian Alvarez.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Robert Byrne, watching the match in astonishment, said he couldn’t explain how Bobby, how anyone, could win six games in a row from such a genius of the game as Bent Larsen.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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
The silent genii of the night seemed to have repaired the fossil city for some representation of fantastic life.
From One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules by Gautier, Th?ophile
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
Springsteen called the musician a writer in the lineage of "geniuses" and "natural rebels" like Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin and Bob Dylan.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026
That group of young geniuses came to be known as the “Termites,” and they were the subjects of what would become one of the most famous psychological studies in history.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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