intellectual

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These days, the upsurge in streaming television and its hunger for content has made books an even more ubiquitous source of intellectual property for the small screen.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

It doesn’t manufacture fuel cells like Bloom but instead licenses the intellectual property behind them.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

The third and youngest boy, E, was found by a psychologist to have "very low intellectual capacity" with limited understanding of consent.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Run-A-Muck is premised on the idea that consumers who enjoy a story, world or other type of intellectual property will consume as much of it as possible in whatever form they can.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

This attitude was reinforced over the next few years, when a succession of critics, clearly Newton’s intellectual inferiors, raised a host of quibbles about his work, which showed their own ignorance more than anything else.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin