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Recent Examples of intellectualism
In the same way, a Shakespeare and Company tote bag signals intellectualism, while the New Yorker tote bag communicates cultural sophistication.
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Kian Bakhtiari, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Its popularity is improbable by virtue of its unapologetic intellectualism, increasingly alien in a highly anti-intellectual era.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026
Also, Dustin’s girlfriend is at his level and an equal, a testimony to his airy intellectualism.
—Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025
Look, this isn’t a lament against intellectualism.
—Mara Reinstein, HollywoodReporter, 24 Nov. 2025
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Kian Bakhtiari, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Its popularity is improbable by virtue of its unapologetic intellectualism, increasingly alien in a highly anti-intellectual era.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026
Also, Dustin’s girlfriend is at his level and an equal, a testimony to his airy intellectualism.
—Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025
Look, this isn’t a lament against intellectualism.
—Mara Reinstein, HollywoodReporter, 24 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intellectualism
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The course, which was combined with a more traditional woodworking class, was developed by the Home Builders Institute, a nonprofit that provides trade skill training and education for the building industry.—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
14 June 2026
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Colorado in May required companies that deploy AI systems in important areas such as employment, education, housing or banking to tell people when it’s being used to influence a decision about them.—
Marc Levy,
Fortune,
14 June 2026
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Academic writing, by contrast, besides being written for an in-group, often uses its erudition to assert superior understanding, telling us our belief that dogs matter owes less to real affection than to learned affectation.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
25 May 2026
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In her coda, Woo writes with great compassion and erudition about what can’t be found in archives, particularly the specifics of how Ellen Craft died.—
Nicholas Boggs,
The Atlantic,
22 Apr. 2026
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The elastico requires perseverance and patience to master, with a key learning point being that the skill, otherwise known as the flip-flap, is performed in one motion.—
Stuart James,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
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DeepMind contributes expertise in artificial intelligence and learning systems, while Nvidia provides the high-performance computing infrastructure needed for large-scale simulation and robot training.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
15 June 2026
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Nonetheless, three days later, he was informed that he had been kicked off the team and that his scholarship would terminate at the conclusion of the fall semester.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
8 Dec. 2025
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Campus leaders at Sam Houston make a point to celebrate anytime a student gets a scholarship, Carter said.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Dec. 2025
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Topics include financial literacy and legal business structures to recipe development and safe food handling.—
Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
12 June 2026
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Before Gutenberg’s printing press in the 1440s, European literacy hovered around 10%.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
11 June 2026
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Mead denied such knowledge in his testimony.—
Sam Blum,
New York Times,
9 Dec. 2025
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Seeking a compromise over controlling exports to China, the White House plans to direct the US Department of Commerce to allow the export of powerful Nvidia GPUs that are roughly 18 months behind its most advanced offerings, according to a person with knowledge of the plan.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
8 Dec. 2025
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Drummers led chants while supporters sang songs that have become staples of Algerian football culture.—
J.M. Banks
June 15,
Kansas City Star,
16 June 2026
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From German dudes discovering Waffle House in the Deep South to Japanese fans experiencing chips and salsa overload in Texas, it's been absolutely beautiful seeing the guests of this great nation being exposed to the best parts of our culture stateside.—
Austin Perry OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
15 June 2026
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The question, of course, is what we are supposed to do with these bourgeois jeremiads against bourgeois civilization, beyond enjoying them as high-end primal-scream therapy.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
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One of the societies most affected was the Minoan civilization, based on Crete.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
15 June 2026
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“Intellectualism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intellectualism. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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