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Recent Examples of intellection Despite appearances to the contrary—the swirling sentences, the feverish intellection—there is nothing hermetic about Krasznahorkai’s work, both old and new, which squarely faces contemporary European reality and its perils, including the tortured dynamics of settlement, movement, and identity. James Wood, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2025 Tennant always brought his own intellection to Disco’s throbbing hedonism yet was hedonistic nonetheless, perfecting a musical idiom that his forerunner Noel Coward was too early to enjoy. Armond White, National Review, 10 May 2024 The school board’s legal counsel thought the book could be in conflict with a recent state intellection freedom rule, and recommended it be removed from circulation, according to a spokeswoman. Tcrain, al, 26 Jan. 2023 There is pleasant cohesion to his body of work, with its blend of bookish intellection and breezy verbal humor. The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021 This is a big spread, in other words, an ambitious platter of intellection and emotion. Dwight Garner, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intellection
Noun
  • Few consumers relish the thought of reading a credit report, shopping for car insurance or parsing a bank statement.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Most young people who experience suicidal thoughts keep those thoughts to themselves.
    Dr. Theresa T. Nguyen, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • According to the woman, her parents’ reasoning for denying her requests was rooted in a harsh lesson about independence.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2025
  • While no specific storyline explanation was given on the broadcast for their exclusion beyond Pearce barring them earlier in the night, the reasoning reported ties into a larger, long-term strategy WWE has for Breakker.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • So this was quite a departure from traditional conceptions of the subject.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Such rote, nakedly procedural appeals inherently reek of moral relativism to the extent they are not grounded at all in any substantive conception of good and bad, or right and wrong.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Each acquisition has its logic, made with great force at the time of the announcement only to be of-course-it-failed snickered at when the sale inevitably unravels.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
  • She’s fallen under the sway of a fashionable worldview in which logic is paramount, and the realm of emotion and magic and even dæmons is just childish fancy.
    Lev Grossman, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The shareholder meetings give the youngest Browns in the sixth and seventh generations, and their distant cousins, a chance to meet and bounce ideas off one another.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Oct. 2025
  • My idea was to do a little ‘maison,’ and to offer a look at what’s behind the brand.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Today with Jenna & Friends co-host credited her sister as the reason for many of her successes, including her role as a television host.
    Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The Raptors’ 34-11 advantage in fast-break points was the biggest reason for that.
    Eric Koreen, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Google has been reorienting its Android smartphones’ software around this concept, with features like Circle to Search, which performs a Google search based on what’s on your phone’s screen.
    Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Naroditsky was widely praised for his ability to explain complex chess concepts clearly.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But Interview With the Vampire set a precedent for transformative TV from the Immortal Universe, its narrative and visual audacity subverting adaptation tropes and genre storytelling by challenging viewers’ notions of immortality, sexuality, and destiny.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2025
  • From these revolutionary realizations, the notion of the expanding Universe was born.
    Big Think, Big Think, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Intellection.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intellection. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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