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as in geniuses
a very smart person
many of our most renowned thinkers gathered for the symposium
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as in minds
the part of a person that feels, thinks, perceives, wills, and especially reasons
loves crossword puzzles, bridge, and other pastimes that makes her use the old thinker
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Recent Examples of thinkers
But Snead and McVey aren’t conventional thinkers.
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Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
Rebecca Ahmed Learn from the world's biggest thinkers.
—Big Think, 23 Apr. 2026
Yet while there was much Latin American anti-imperialist thinkers could agree on, there were also profound divergences between them.
—Tony Wood, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2026
As one of the nation’s most consequential legal thinkers and scholars, Heather Gerken has long directed her fierce intellect toward defending free and fair elections, a strong civic architecture, and the rule of law.
—Elizabeth Alexander, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
The visit also draws attention to the North African origins of Augustine, who spent only five years in Italy but is often seen through a Eurocentric lens as one of the greatest Western thinkers of Christianity for his writings on truth, evil, creation and grace.
—Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
But the visit is also drawing attention to the North African origins of Augustine, who only spent five years in Italy but is often considered through a Eurocentric lens as one of the greatest Western thinkers of Christianity for his writings on truth, evil, creation and grace.
—Nicole Winfield, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
One answer to this, for medieval thinkers, is to train the eye to see differently.
—Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
Hazzard works for a fabulously wealthy family that has both a museum and a pair of boys she tutors in the ways of history’s great thinkers.
—Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 14 Apr. 2026
Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
Rebecca Ahmed Learn from the world's biggest thinkers.
—Big Think, 23 Apr. 2026
Yet while there was much Latin American anti-imperialist thinkers could agree on, there were also profound divergences between them.
—Tony Wood, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2026
As one of the nation’s most consequential legal thinkers and scholars, Heather Gerken has long directed her fierce intellect toward defending free and fair elections, a strong civic architecture, and the rule of law.
—Elizabeth Alexander, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
The visit also draws attention to the North African origins of Augustine, who spent only five years in Italy but is often seen through a Eurocentric lens as one of the greatest Western thinkers of Christianity for his writings on truth, evil, creation and grace.
—Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
But the visit is also drawing attention to the North African origins of Augustine, who only spent five years in Italy but is often considered through a Eurocentric lens as one of the greatest Western thinkers of Christianity for his writings on truth, evil, creation and grace.
—Nicole Winfield, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
One answer to this, for medieval thinkers, is to train the eye to see differently.
—Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
Hazzard works for a fabulously wealthy family that has both a museum and a pair of boys she tutors in the ways of history’s great thinkers.
—Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 14 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thinkers
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Like nuclear-fission research, machine learning was a small scientific field with epochal implications which was dominated by a cadre of eccentric geniuses.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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And when the battleground is AI and art, geniuses often seem like The Good Guys.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
6 Apr. 2026
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This white chocolate bar is creamy and ultra-sweet, and the great minds at TJ’s were smart to distract from the one-note flavor with crunchy little cookie crumbles.—
Alex Beggs,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
25 Apr. 2026
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His backyard featured wall-to-wall attendees, all part of the image that surely sat in the back of the Raiders executives’ minds with the selection.—
Noah White,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2026
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That won't mean much to most gamers or even most PC enthusiasts, but for memory-tuning wizards like 1usmus, more levers to pull in overclocking and timing adjustments may make more capable memory overclocks possible in the future.—
Jon Martindale,
PC Magazine,
24 Apr. 2026
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This one just happens to involve wizards, goblins, and one savage, half-blind dragon.—
Séamas O'Reilly,
Vulture,
26 Mar. 2026
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Women are compelled to suppress their desires, intellects, and emotions in Gilead.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
29 Apr. 2026
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While the likes of Philo and Trotter have expanded upon the idea by prioritizing people whose intellects align with their brand values, Jacquemus takes it to another level.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
23 Jan. 2026
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But a few years before our discovery, researchers found that the same protein [called TDP-43] is found in the spinal cords of patients with ALS and in the brains of patients with FTD.—
Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
24 Apr. 2026
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In 1987, Shields graduated from Princeton, proving she's got beauty and brains to spare!—
Andrea Wurzburger,
PEOPLE,
24 Apr. 2026
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Khorus Harmonia hatched organically, a lot having to do with the seismic changes contracting Hollywood and runaway production that is roiling the psyches of everyone who makes a living in its ecosystem.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
31 Mar. 2026
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But however the lawsuits play out, the issue of tech’s impact on our behavior and our psyches is top of mind for a growing number of physicians, parents, and employers—and will only get more urgent as AI plays a bigger role in our lives.—
Matthew Heimer,
Fortune,
24 Mar. 2026
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