intellectual
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Hunt was the intellectual anchor of that leg, which is why his resignation is news.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
London also announced it will share with Kyiv the intellectual property behind a new battle-tested electronic jamming capability it has dubbed "Stone Cloak".
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
They will visit a naval base, where Burnham will announce the sharing of the intellectual property behind the UK's new "Stone Cloak" electronic warfare system, enabling Ukraine to produce the technology at scale.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
The petition states that the estate included residuals and royalties, rights to his image and intellectual property, investments, insurance policies, personal property and multiple bank accounts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
He doubted that there is any principle of morality which can command universal assent, and he doubted that any of our sophisticated intellectual systems make sense of how the world is.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Otero Alcantara, a self-taught performance artist, sculptor and painter, rose to prominence in 2020 as leader of the San Isidro protest movement of artists and intellectuals.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Instead, she places Black Americans, Black intellectuals, and Black constitutional struggle where they have always belonged: at the center of the 14th Amendment.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
Beginning in the 1870s, atheism and indifference to religion became popular, especially among younger intellectuals.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
While N.Y. punk was inspired by Beat writers and intellectuals, its British counterpart was more sociopolitical, aggressive and nihilistic, addressing concerns about the government, the monarchy and unemployment.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Before an audience of intellectuals, Swammerdam cut away the skin of the silkworm to reveal what appeared to be a tiny model of the future moth inside, from proboscis to antennae to folded wings.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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