intellectual

Example Sentences

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And I think the sticking is because of the exploration, the real exploration, not just an intellectual “trying to learn a language.”

From Los Angeles Times

Her efforts to elevate Diogenes into the upper reaches of the Greek intellectual pantheon are ingenious but ultimately unconvincing and, at times, misleading.

From The Wall Street Journal

Back in America, the budding liberal intellectual’s name was showing up atop impressive essays and reviews in the New Yorker and Partisan Review.

From The Wall Street Journal

We’re not just a mother, or an artist, or an intellectual.

From Los Angeles Times

Michele Singer Reiner was her husband’s “intellectual partner” as an activist, Austin said, even though he was usually the one whose face we saw.

From Los Angeles Times