intellectual
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“The Complete Notebooks” traces Camus’s development from a budding writer in colonial Algeria to a journalist of the French Resistance to a revered public intellectual.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
The company said it will maintain its focus on squeezing more profit from the many famous toys and other intellectual properties it controls.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
The writer bashes imaginary feminists who supposedly tell women that caring about appearance is “some kind of intellectual failure.”
From Salon • May 8, 2026
It’s been a week of emotional and intellectual whiplash, but I head into the theater feeling uplifted.
From Slate • May 8, 2026
The intellectual apparatus of the new science—facts, experiments, theories, laws of nature, evidence—did not establish its worth by philosophical arguments; its success depended upon the fact that, in practice, it produced good results.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing intellectual
100 Great Words from "Fahrenheit 451" -- Part I Vocabulary
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