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Recent Examples of intellectualism
Jude is an erudite man of the people whose hyper-literate intellectualism is only matched by his Chaucer-like vulgarity, and his work has long reveled in an impish fascination with the relationship between art, labor, and technology.
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2025
Just look at Kayvon Thibodeaux, who entered the league not just as a top edge rusher but as an entrepreneur and cultural commentator—launching a crypto literacy initiative during his draft campaign and openly challenging narratives around Black athletes and intellectualism.
—Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
But Kennedy’s Camelot at least tried to elevate idealism, intellectualism, and the modern elegance of a pillbox hat.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2025
Eventually Faithfull found an interest in performing in plays and, entranced by Buddy Holly and Joan Baez and Simone de Beauvoir, folk music, and arty café intellectualism as well.
—Bill Wyman, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2025
Just look at Kayvon Thibodeaux, who entered the league not just as a top edge rusher but as an entrepreneur and cultural commentator—launching a crypto literacy initiative during his draft campaign and openly challenging narratives around Black athletes and intellectualism.
—Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
But Kennedy’s Camelot at least tried to elevate idealism, intellectualism, and the modern elegance of a pillbox hat.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2025
Eventually Faithfull found an interest in performing in plays and, entranced by Buddy Holly and Joan Baez and Simone de Beauvoir, folk music, and arty café intellectualism as well.
—Bill Wyman, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intellectualism
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But Jesmore said talking to his grandson about the design of the new world headquarters, which will be more open-concept for collaboration rather than individual offices, was an education.—
Jamie L. LaReau,
USA Today,
2 Nov. 2025
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Abigail Spanberger, our candidate, three pillars to her campaign, affordability, jobs, and education, which is about kids, but also about our workforce.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Nov. 2025
Noun
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In a better world, novels of this level of sophistication, beauty, erudition, ambiguity, and play would come along more frequently and dominate the literary discourse.—
Emily Temple,
Literary Hub,
14 Oct. 2025
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With Marshall Curry‘s The New Yorker at 100, a magazine famous for its erudition and curation receives a polished, amusing and generally superficial Reader’s Digest summary of a documentary.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Aug. 2025
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His learnings from working with the mass retailer have played into this ethos of designing great wardrobing for the luxury woman, which has played into the designer’s global expansion.—
Emily Mercer,
Footwear News,
5 Nov. 2025
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Using deep reinforcement learning The new system uses deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to guide a robot, much like human hand-eye coordination.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Nov. 2025
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Irvin, 6-1 and 175 pounds, chose the Razorbacks over scholarship offers from Kansas State, Purdue, South Florida, Minnesota, UNLV and others in June.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
4 Nov. 2025
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His journey began with a collegiate scholarship, followed by professional playing stints across America and Europe.—
Matt Emma,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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After all, in the early days of literacy, reading—now perhaps the paradigmatic example of a non-screen-time activity—was considered ominous; people reading silently to themselves might have seemed demented.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
23 Oct. 2025
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Still, Medicare costs could even out depending on which parts recipients are accessing based on their needs, according to Alex Beene, a financial literacy instructor for the University of Tennessee at Martin.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Libraries and archives hold so much knowledge within their sacred confines.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Seven Castain’s knowledge of ‘Seinfeld’ Castain was born in 2004, and her familiarity with a TV show is limited since Seinfeld signed off in ‘98.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The entry of the American brand helped spur the rise of a thriving coffee culture among the burgeoning middle class of a country that traditionally drank tea, and Starbucks soon became a symbol of Western influence in a more affluent China.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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The goal of the program, arranged through the hotel concierge, is to encourage discovery of the soul of an area through bold design, local culture, and meaningful connections.—
Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
5 Nov. 2025
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Over two decades in the making, the $1 billion museum -- set close to the famed Pyramids of Giza, just outside the capital Cairo -- is touted by officials as the world's largest museum dedicated to a single civilization.—
Ayat Al-Tawy,
ABC News,
2 Nov. 2025
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It was utilized across many ancient civilizations for artwork, as well as preserving and tanning animal hides.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Intellectualism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intellectualism. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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