intellectual

Example Sentences

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Those being approached often don’t have the right to sell the intellectual property.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Yet the intellectual impulse behind it has not disappeared.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

The lawyers added that former collaborators in the project had "unlawfully transferred the business and intellectual property assets of System de Min to a new company" not in their client's name.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

That reflects his profound lack of intellectual curiosity.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

But, at other times, vast, well-constructed, apparently robust intellectual edifices are swept away with barely a murmur because, to paraphrase Vadianus, experience really can be demonstrative.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton