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as in wizards
a very smart person
the 16-year-old college graduate was considered to be a genius
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as in talents
a special and usually inborn ability
had a genius for remembering long strings of numbers had a genius for saying the wrong thing, no matter what the social situation
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as in aptitudes
a habitual attraction to some activity or thing
a genius for gambling over his head
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as in natures
the set of qualities that makes a person, a group of people, or a thing different from others
putting the needs of the individual before those of society is alien to the genius of the Japanese people
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as in manifestations
a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality)
the giant tortoise would seem to be the very genius of the unfathomable ancientness that one associates with the Galápagos Islands
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Recent Examples of geniuses
You have been fired or laid off, and your replacement immediately takes the company to unprecedented heights while receiving the universal praise reserved for the geniuses of your craft.
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Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
Drama of the nerds and the geniuses.
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Bethanne Patrick,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2026
Special shout-out to the writers’ room for giving us a high-tension cold open and then segueing immediately post-credits to the Titan equivalent of a family road trip where Mom and Dad are pedantic geniuses arguing over what route to take to the beach.
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Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
22 May 2026
This has been, in no small part, because Russia’s writers have often played an antagonistic role in the efforts of Russia’s rulers to shape a particular image of the country, including Alexander Pushkin and Leo Tolstoy—arguably Russia’s two most iconic literary geniuses.
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Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
But there was also a team beyond that consisting of creative geniuses like chess grandmasters, codebreakers and human psychologists.
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Alexander Foster,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
Also, the brilliance of Tolstoy and Chekhov and Dostoevsky, these geniuses that have gone down in history.
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David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
Like nuclear-fission research, machine learning was a small scientific field with epochal implications which was dominated by a cadre of eccentric geniuses.
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Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
And when the battleground is AI and art, geniuses often seem like The Good Guys.
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Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
6 Apr. 2026
Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
Drama of the nerds and the geniuses.
—
Bethanne Patrick,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2026
Special shout-out to the writers’ room for giving us a high-tension cold open and then segueing immediately post-credits to the Titan equivalent of a family road trip where Mom and Dad are pedantic geniuses arguing over what route to take to the beach.
—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
22 May 2026
This has been, in no small part, because Russia’s writers have often played an antagonistic role in the efforts of Russia’s rulers to shape a particular image of the country, including Alexander Pushkin and Leo Tolstoy—arguably Russia’s two most iconic literary geniuses.
—
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
But there was also a team beyond that consisting of creative geniuses like chess grandmasters, codebreakers and human psychologists.
—
Alexander Foster,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
Also, the brilliance of Tolstoy and Chekhov and Dostoevsky, these geniuses that have gone down in history.
—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
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
And when the battleground is AI and art, geniuses often seem like The Good Guys.
—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
6 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for geniuses
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After climbing the Azkaban Escape Tower to the top, repel-style, young wizards-in-training, Clark and Emily Friscia, were ready to go home.
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And two other high-flying AI wizards — Anthropic and OpenAI — are working on their own mega offerings.
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Instead of demanding personal fealty or humiliating them to assert personal dominance, Lincoln absorbed their egos and occasional slights, elevating their talents and turning his fiercest political adversaries into his most devoted champions.
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That said, the success of a company as large as Alphabet, over the long-term, is about far more than the talents of a few key executives.
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For this class, the premise is that your purpose in life lies to the intersection of your values, your aptitudes and your interests.
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This model reflects Japan’s long-standing corporate culture, which prioritizes new hires for their general potential—their aptitudes and aspirations, as opposed to their current skill sets or university majors—and then trains them on the job.
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The fact is often interpreted as women wanting less risk than men because of women’s natures.
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These observations suggest that small, mysterious moons with surprisingly different natures are the source of the particles that make up the two outermost rings, and that there are probably even more undiscovered moons to add to the 29 already known around Uranus.
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The persistence of these misconceptions matters because clinicians and the public alike may expect Ebola to look dramatic from the outset, when in reality its early manifestations often resemble many other common infectious diseases.
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The Cane Ridge Revival would become an epochal moment in American religious history, one of the most visible manifestations of what historians would later refer to as the Second Great Awakening.
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Even professionals in their prime walked away rather than risk compromising their brains.
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There’s a deeper flux and connectivity between the different parts of our brains, the different parts our personalities and our creativity.
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An appeals court in April sentenced Yoon’s wife, Kim Keon Hee, to four years in prison after convicting her on various charges, including receiving luxury gifts from a Unification Church official.
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To surrender to those gifts, as Rowland put it, was to shatter boundaries that had previously kept Black artists segregated to genre and medium.
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The same tendencies people are routinely told to correct are, in moderate form, closely tied to a busier, more exploratory style of thinking than most self-improvement advice accounts for.
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Plath shows up in Dederer’s book about (mostly) men who make great art and live monstrous lives (and what to do with them), but only as a woman who turns her violent tendencies against herself.
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