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Recent Examples of brainpower Is the collective brainpower of the staff built to squeeze the most out of its personnel, even if that personnel (light receivers, a pass-catching tight end, etc.) was not amassed to run the ball? Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025 Unlike humans, who focus more on visual information, dogs dedicate much of their brainpower to analyzing scents. Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025 And, with all due respect to the people doing the work, none of these tasks takes much brainpower. Gene Marks, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024 One dazzling 2014 demonstration of Watson’s brainpower showed off its potential to transform medicine using AI—a goal that IBM CEO Virginia Rometty often calls the company’s moon shot. IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2019 See All Example Sentences for brainpower
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Noun
  • According to a recent study from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, human intellect has declined since 2012.
    Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • Customer-facing interactions require human intuition to navigate sensitive moments where empathy, sensitivity and emotional intellect truly matter.
    Joel Frenette, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • In an interview with Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, Bartiromo brought up a Truth Social post from Trump saying Democrats had leaked intelligence around the Iran strike, to which the president interjected that they should be prosecuted.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 29 June 2025
  • This is embodied intelligence – the idea that some elements of cognition can be outsourced to the body.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • There is not an American President—Bill Clinton, George H. W. or George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, or Donald Trump—who has dealt with Netanyahu and not, sooner or later, come away with a lingering sense of resentment.
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 21 June 2025
  • In a sense, the job search should be treated like a personal marketing campaign, Zeile suggested.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 20 June 2025

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“Brainpower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brainpower. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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