genius
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Arsenal's duality was there for all to see in their 2-0 win at Sunderland: gritty defence and moments of genius.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Failure to control A.I., then, points to a lack of imagination from the creator, not from the genius of the machine.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
Who could have guessed that football genius Sean McVay would be so badly outplanned, so badly outcoached, and so unimaginably wrong on the game’s transformative play?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Where Parker was the jazz-saxophone genius who succumbed to his excesses, Coltrane transcended his.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
She hasn’t said so, but I don’t need to be a genius to figure out who keeps calling and texting her.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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 women, of course, were all fearfully alarmed, some believing that they were real soldiers, others that they were genii in the form of soldiers.
From Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East by A. Hume-Griffith
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
But corporate life is still corporate, even in artistic professions that give creative geniuses some leeway for antics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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
But few of his geniuses were nationally known figures.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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