intellect

Example Sentences

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"Yuriy was very smart. She really won him over with her intellect," Nina said.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

I was devastated, ashamed even, to learn that my brain—the thing responsible for my intellect, which I pride myself on—was defective.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

Our critic said, “the Chicago-born artist has an omnivorous intellect, one that he proudly displays in this presentation of nearly 90 works from his three-decade career.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026

This combination will make them much more productive and indispensable, turning AI into a force multiplier for human intellect.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 6, 2026

“See how beautiful this horse is; Leonardo da Vinci alone has created it. Sculptor, fine painter, fine mathematician, so great an intellect rarely does Heaven bestow.”

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day