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
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Noun
  • Cellphone usage continues to be one of the most contentious issues for education leaders.
    Arthur Jones II, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Those areas include voting, healthcare, and education literature.
    Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • His cast is various, their inclusion in a collection like this helped very much by their learning and erudition.
    Book Marks September 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 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
  • With this certification program, employees can take short learning breaks and access ready-to-apply AI content on demand, instantly increasing their AI acumen.
    Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • That includes providing students with applied and work-based learning experiences in high school, as well as career exposure and exploration opportunities that begin in age-appropriate ways in middle school.
    Matt Gandal, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • My daughter Celeste earned her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering at Tulane University, supported by merit scholarships and hard work as a server in a restaurant.
    Joyce Marter, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The 183-room boutique hotel is owned by Rollins College, with all net profits going toward funding scholarships for students at the school.
    Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Rather than going all-in on AI literacy, the question is to calibrate deliberate exposure to mental challenges that build resistance to intellectual dependency.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • With the help of the courts, these governments disfranchised Black voters, establishing poll taxes, literacy tests, understanding clauses, and other measures to effectively deny them the vote.
    Time, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That requires more than knowledge.
    Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • HoneyBee Sage aimed to be that space to share knowledge as well as a business prototype for other entrepreneurs interested in herbalism.
    La Risa R. Lynch, jsonline.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While the head coach has been a breath of fresh air from a culture perspective, that aspect will only go so far if the team continues to lose week in and week out.
    Mike Kaye September 10, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Those included defending Novo's leadership in diabetes and obesity treatment, fostering a high performance culture and realigning the company's cost base and driving efficiencies.
    Karen Gilchrist,Katrina Bishop, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But Karl Maybach’s greatest contribution to the wonders of European civilization were his enormously powerful diesel engines that gave birth to the very first high-speed trains of Europe, emphatically putting steam trains out of business.
    Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • On a planet with 10 percent carbon dioxide, a technological civilization would need to last for at least 280,000 years for humanity to have even one neighbor in the galaxy living at the same time.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025

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