intellect
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Reviewing the staging of the show at the Guggenheim, our critic said “the Chicago-born artist has an omnivorous intellect, one that he proudly displays in this presentation.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 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
This combination will make them much more productive and indispensable, turning AI into a force multiplier for human intellect.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 6, 2026
So for my annual holiday columna recommending great books about Southern California, I’m sticking to formats that lend themselves to easier reading — bite-size jewels of intellect, if you will.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2025
During the years 1919-20 Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist, adopted as his own the maxim ‘pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing intellect
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