intellectual
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"We're not playing an intellectual puzzle game," Judge Indira Talwani reportedly told a lawyer defending the restrictions, in remarks widely picked up by US media.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
For a decade, Mr. Daniels kept tuition in check, promoted free speech and intellectual diversity, and opened the campus to in-person teaching when many other schools resorted to pandemic lockdowns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Such facilities provide "the digital intellectual capacity to support your researchers and students and society and industries and startups," Huang said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
"I was looking for a good intellectual home where I could have practical impact."
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Each of these arguments, of course, has become part of a larger intellectual movement which may loosely be labelled ‘postmodernism’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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To this day, Sand’s literature continues to eloquently embody the role that self-construction plays in the lives of dreamers and intellectuals of every generation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
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
This was the beginning of the Reformation; intellectuals everywhere began to reject the authority of the pope.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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