intellectualism

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for intellectualism
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intellectualism
Noun
  • An informal education professional, Eitan spent part of his captivity with Yair, and the brothers reportedly fled through tunnels during Israeli airstrikes.
    Itay Stern, NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Former Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne lost her job as education minister, replaced by civil servant Edouard Geffray.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Developed by AheadForm Technology, the robot offers up to 30 degrees of freedom, powered by a precise control system and an advanced AI learning algorithm.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The Americans with Disabilities Act, which was updated in 2010, requires schools to provide equal access to programs for students with disabilities and to eliminate barriers to their learning.
    Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Administration also scrutinized schools for things like offering race-specific scholarships and for charging in-state tuition to undocumented students, arguing that these benefits disadvantage American students.
    Emma Green, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The scholarship debuted during homecoming weekend, with an accompanying performance by Smith at a fundraising luncheon with the music school’s rock band and later at the halftime show of the Gophers football game against the Purdue Boilermakers.
    Sophia Arndt, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Occasionally, McMahon has spoken positively of public schools — for example, praising some for literacy gains.
    Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Their paths to property blocked by law and custom, and their literacy limited by education and expectation, their lives left fewer traces.
    Jane Kamensky, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Capital Market Authority has asked several companies planning IPOs in the coming months to allocate 30% of the shares on offer to retail investors, three people with knowledge of the plans said.
    Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Whether the projects were promoting Indigenous languages to better understand their food cultures or sustainably tending local ecosystems, grant reviewers found a constant in their peers’ embrace of past cultural knowledge to solve today’s problems.
    Fortune, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The films are expected to intersect to capture the band’s improbable journey from Liverpool to the center of global culture, leading to their 1970 breakup.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In the first episode of CW's TV We Love, a multipart series celebrating eight of the most iconic American television shows and their lasting impact on audiences and culture, experts discuss the beautiful relationship between the couple.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Signs of bacteria from the Clostridiaceae family had previously been found in other mummies from ancient Andean civilizations, linking the individual to a larger cultural context.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Euphoria blends ancient Greek and Chinese therapies, as these two great civilizations developed similar well-being philosophies that emphasize inner peace, unity, and holistic balance.
    Janine Di Giovanni, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025

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