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
  • Many young consumers, already juggling high costs for food, rent, and education, and crushed by an unsympathetic labor market, are entering adulthood with the self-care budget of a socialite twice their age.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The food hub's work now focuses more on education.
    Cristina LaRue, Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • In addition, Blaze Pizza will donate $1 from every pizza sold that day to Folds of Honor, which provides educational scholarships to military families.
    Cheryl V. Jackson, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The scholarship, entirely funded by the school with the approval of the Renne family, will be awarded yearly to a deserving student from the second, third or fourth years of the undergraduate course.
    Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Kinoshita quit her job and is now making financial literacy content online.
    Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 8 Nov. 2025
  • For example, toddlers will benefit from toys that encourage them to build gross motor skills and work on early speech and literacy skills.
    Anja Webb, Parents, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Like most fiction, it’s made up of experiences, imagination, ideas, memories, emotions, speculation, knowledge and research.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
  • At the time, maps were restricted, and knowledge of geography limited.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • In every type of industry, companies must use this disdain for the status quo to cultivate cultures of curiosity, innovation, and adaptability.
    Phil Gilbert, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Those moments set the tone for a family culture built on competition, loyalty, and showing up.
    Asli Pelit, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • All of which is to say that alcohol, that timeless ferment fomenting next day regrets since the dawn of civilization, now has competition.
    Timothy DePeugh, Charlotte Observer, 7 Nov. 2025
  • For now, the map provides visual data for understanding how the civilization moved and evolved, helping to identify routes for the dispersion of goods, the circulation of diseases or the spread of ideas, de Soto said.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025

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