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genius

[jeen-yuhs] / ˈdʒin jəs /


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“That is a Detroit story: genius, grit, and invention, from neighborhoods the world too often overlooked.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Let him focus his genius on making better chips.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

"This in turn will act as a magnet for talented people all over the UK who will hone their genius in the city and further enhance its prospects."

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

US tech tycoon Elon Musk is "truly a genius" for deploying thousands of satellites into orbit, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday, as Moscow seeks to develop its own satellite internet network.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

And Elliott Schilpp, the skinny genius from Maryland who had won the pizza-eating contest.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

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 presiding genii of this particular work include Adrienne Rich, Sigmund Freud, Alice Miller and, above all, Virginia Woolf and the British psychoanalyst DW Winnicott.

From The Guardian ● May 24, 2012

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

From BBC ● May 15, 2011

Holding these views, I cannot entertain the proposition that the winged creatures in the very remarkable gem already referred to are evil genii.

From Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other by Thomas Inman

In recent years, coaches with more clearly defined tactics, patterns of play, or fixed positional references have been lauded as the geniuses of the sport.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Owen Thiele: Ben, Rebecca and I huddled a lot, and I listened to everything they said because they’re geniuses and also my bosses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

Like the billionaire geniuses who created social media that wound up depressing, dumbing down and dehumanizing civilization, the motives of these companies were purely financial.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

“Think one of these geniuses will be able to move them?”

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor


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