How to Use intelligence in a Sentence
intelligence
noun- She impressed us with her superior intelligence.
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Jinx and Bond try and flush out a mole in British intelligence.
—Emily Burack, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2022
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Matter of fact, the president gets a daily brief of all of the intelligence hot spots around the world.
—CBS News, 21 Apr. 2024
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Came in here and lit up things on the special teams with his speed, his toughness, his intelligence.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 19 Nov. 2022
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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
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According to Ukrainian intelligence, Russia had a stockpile of about 50 Kinzhals at the start of the war, and has used about a dozen of them.
—David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2023
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But her intelligence quickly earned her the respect of leaders around the world.
—Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2022
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What’s also not known is what intelligence India had on the PL-15.
—Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 9 May 2025
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The corpse was dressed as an officer of the Royal Marines and fake war plans were placed in his pockets for German intelligence to find.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024
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Their intelligence helped warn the U.S. that its allies were secretly plotting to seize the Suez Canal.
—Nathalia Holt, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2022
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Put your emotions aside and let your intelligence decide what’s best for you.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024
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The real deal means people with the heart and intelligence to be selfless and effective.
—Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 31 July 2023
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Later, we were tailed by a unit from the Taliban intelligence section.
—Victor Blue, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
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There’s been a leak in its bucket of gathered intelligence.
—Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2022
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But no one had the resume, charisma and intelligence of Baker.
—Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
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Even as his on-screen persona, Jacobs has shown an intelligence that bucks the stereotypes of the massive, jarhead wrestler.
—Fox News, 7 June 2022
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The first is that these models appear to have the intelligence and creativity of a human.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
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It's used by the American intelligence agencies, by the Italian police and by Hunt's team.
—Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
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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
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The emotional intelligence in her music and the soul in her voice captured the attention of her colleagues as well.
—Katelina Eccleston, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2023
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In the comics, Sabra is a mutant agent for the Israeli intelligence service that has super strength, speed, and healing powers.
—EW.com, 17 July 2024
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The president's intelligence hub is located on the ground floor of the West Wing — one level beneath the Oval Office.
—Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 28 May 2024
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The project was funded by the Kremlin and run by a Russian intelligence officer.
—Shannon Bond, NPR, 4 Sep. 2024
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In the distance, other lights appear now on the far side of the harbor, and, closer, the dull-white gull-like hulls of a band of anchored boats rock softly, without intelligence.
—Timothy Donnelly, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
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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
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And both of those also are CBP operations, leveraging the intelligence game through the first two.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 July 2023
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The feature was found in Twitter’s code by product intelligence firm Watchful.ai.
—David Meyer, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2023
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An account of the theft is contained in an affidavit by the country’s former head of intelligence Arthur Fraser, who has opened a case against Ramaphosa.
—Mogomotsi Magome, ajc, 6 June 2022
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Israel’s attempt to achieve these highly ambitious goals with an air campaign and sophisticated intelligence networks, but without the deployment of a ground army, has no modern precedent.
—Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2025
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Chinese companies are mandated by law to assist China's intelligence agencies when needed.
—Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 5 June 2025
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