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intellectual

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




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Powers also responded to surveillance concerns by clarifying that his company’s software only blocks the printer from making prohibited parts — it doesn’t flag them to authorities or log users’ intellectual property.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2026

We need to stop thinking of college as a time to find oneself and recast it as a period of intellectual development that precedes our more formative mid- to late 20s.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

"What makes AI particularly concerning is that it's not a tool designated for one specific kind of activity. It's something that can be used across pretty much any intellectual, reasoning, cognitive activity."

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

She was an artist and an intellectual, McVey said, describing the detailed landscapes her sister would paint and the numerous questions she would ask her Alexa device.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

New instruments are plain as pikestaffs; new intellectual tools are not.

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

And while it details Jewish participation in, and influence on, global soccer, it also challenges the cliché that Jews were intellectuals, artists and laborers but not athletes.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2026

The issue is that these are means to which most intellectuals are allergic.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 2, 2026

My ideas would be like demons rushing from a hellish cave, and my fellow intellectuals, startled by the truth and enormity of my observations, would try to bottle them up before they spread.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris




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