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intellectual

[in-tl-ek-choo-uhl] / ˌɪn tlˈɛk tʃu əl /




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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

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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