intelligent
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“I know a lot of feisty, fun, and intelligent women and I knew when I met her that she was one of them.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Technosignatures may be more convincing, but they depend on assumptions about how intelligent life might behave, which adds uncertainty.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
“Roberto Velasco seems to be a intelligent and well-educated person,” said one veteran Mexican diplomat posted to the United States, who asked to not be named because the person was not authorized to speak.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
My best guess is that Cassidy and Kaine themselves — being the intelligent and diligent legislators they are — would prefer a serious approach and offer this proposal simply to move their colleagues to action.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026
Thus according to the common-sense view the science of extraterrestrial beings, if they exist and if they are intelligent, must, where it overlaps with our science, agree with it.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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