How to Use intelligence in a Sentence

intelligence

noun

• She impressed us with her superior intelligence.
• Ted: A lot of it has to do with a misconception of what intelligence even is.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
• The real deal means people with the heart and intelligence to be selfless and effective.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 31 July 2023
• Later, we were tailed by a unit from the Taliban intelligence section.
  — Victor Blue, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
• It's used by the American intelligence agencies, by the Italian police and by Hunt's team.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• Overall, the novel struck me as far more cynical about the mission of the intelligence services than even le Carré tends to be.
  — Laura Kipnis, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2023
• Viewed in this way, intelligence is what gives an organism the best chance to survive and thrive in an environment.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 14 Sep. 2023
• And both of those also are CBP operations, leveraging the intelligence game through the first two.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 July 2023
• Axios reports that Israeli intelligence tracked the origin of the file back to a 2003 al-Qaeda manual.
  — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 21 Oct. 2023
• Is there a real utility to adding machine intelligence to a grill?
  — Condé Nast, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2024
• China and Cuba have agreed to establish a signals intelligence base in the island country, just 100 miles from the U.S. mainland.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
• That means ByteDance is legally bound to help with gathering intelligence.
  — Laura He, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
• Prosecutors have not said whether the two were courted or paid by the same Chinese intelligence officer as part of a larger scheme.
  — Julie Watson, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2023
• Their vividly colored feathers and intelligence are a draw to those seeking a less conventional pet than a dog or cat.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2023
• That intelligence was proved right Friday, as Wagner troops moved to take control of a southern Russian city.
  — Julian E. Barnes, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2023
• Learning, not knowledge, was the engine of intelligence.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• It can be seen swimming and scurrying, and is so adept at using tools—to, say, forage for food or floss its teeth—that its own intelligence is a hot topic of academic study.
  — Erika Fry, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
• James’s epigraph is a snapshot of songs from the notebook of Daniel Decatur Emmett, a founder of the first blackface minstrel troupe, a wink at how Jim will play his intelligence to survive amidst his white counterparts.
  — Vulture, 2 Jan. 2024
• So is a hush-hush intelligence operation that takes care of global problems on the down low (and features a nifty cameo from a notable Oscar nominee).
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
• Her call for a full investigation led to five years of efforts, by a revolving cast of intelligence officials, to block her work and keep the probe’s results secret.
  — Cathleen Decker, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• Ukraine’s continued focus on Bakhmut, the scene of one of the bloodiest battles of the war, has perplexed US intelligence and military officials.
  — Eric Schmitt, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
• President Biden is set to strike a deal with China that would limit the use of artifical intelligence in nuclear weapons.
  — Michael Lee, Fox News, 15 Nov. 2023
• The 41-year-old aid worker was sentenced for charges of espionage for a foreign intelligence service and money laundering.
  — Mostafa Salem, CNN, 26 May 2023
• So, what message was American intelligence sending when the FBI found a half a million in cash sewn into a senator's windbreaker and gold bars stashed in his closet?
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2023
• Kimmerer, botanist and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, speaks about her humility for the intelligence of all kinds of life that most people in the West see as inanimate.
  — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• These states appear concerned and even alarmed about reports of U.S. intelligence activity in Afghanistan.
  — Asfandyar Mir, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2024
• And the number of ransomware payments did drop, said Jacqueline Koven, head of threat intelligence at Chainalysis, which tracks crypto transactions.
  — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
• Pierpaolo Piccioli, then one of the two creative directors at Valentino, saw in him a sharp intelligence softened by a lightness of being.
  — Jason Horowitz, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2024
• This arguably matters more in the context of decision-making than intelligence alone, because the best decision is not always the most rational one.
  — Guillaume Thierry, Fortune, 31 July 2023
• The training will take place in Latvia and provide instruction on intelligence reconnaissance, among other skills.
  — Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 11 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024