How to Use brainiac in a Sentence

brainiac

noun
  • South Bay brainiacs — watch out.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 28 May 2026
  • Both are wicked smart brainiacs on a tireless quest to do good in the world.
    — Natasha Stoynoff, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • In no time, this brainiac’s wrestling aliens and free soloing up a rocky cliff.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 12 June 2019
  • Parrots and corvids have reputations as the brainiacs of the bird world.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Citadel’s entire business is built around hiring brainiacs.
    — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • But if Weddle couldn’t fend off blocks or make tackles, being a brainiac wouldn’t be enough.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Just the title was about the highest brainiac accolade that could be conferred.
    — al.com, 27 June 2019
  • Now, because the Redmond brainiacs can’t (or won’t) manage that mess, those servers are going dark.
    — Scott Thill, WIRED, 1 May 2008
  • Not the brainiacs in charge, apparently.
    — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Well, the bubbly brainiacs at Dom Pérignon are about to make that dream a reality.
    — Katie Robinson, Town & Country, 26 July 2017
  • And now one of those receivers will be Stills, a brainiac who can align anywhere and read defenses while running routes.
    — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Familiar tropes get a raucous refresh when an underdog brainiac teams up with misfit dancers to pop-and-lock like a champ.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Understand, Reich holds her own in a league of serious brainiacs.
    — David Whiting, Orange County Register, 6 Apr. 2017
  • That was before the state became better known for brainiacs huddled in labs than workers toiling on assembly lines.
    — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
  • In Israel, Max meets eight other junior brainiacs who have gathered, like her, to save the planet.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2018
  • But again, there’s probably a whole load more business decisions and brainiac ideas that will probably help that idea flourish.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Even at a flagship public university, the true type-A brainiacs might have to work harder to find one another.
    — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2026
  • All this attaches the show’s brainiac spectacle to big humanistic ideas.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Male lead Schwartzman earned laughs as an awkward war photographer grieving his late wife and herding three young daughters and a brainiac son.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 23 May 2023
  • By the time season 3 begins, that empire is thriving, with Dwight having amassed a loyal team of hustlers, killers, and brainiacs.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025
  • In the ’70s, D&D was like Comic-Con as a table game — an abstract geek-brainiac’s version of cosplay.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The contestants — all performed well by current college students and recent college graduates — are a cross-section of typical middle-school brainiacs.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2026
  • Telephone and cable companies moved too slow chasing those speeds to please the brainiacs in Mountain View, so the company created Google Fiber.
    — Scott Canon, kansascity.com, 12 June 2017
  • As those of us with Flavia-mania know from previous books, the plucky adolescent is terrifically entertaining — the world’s foremost brainiac/chemist/sleuth/busybody/smarty-pants.
    — Adam Woog, The Seattle Times, 26 Jan. 2018
  • That made Grissom the ideal brainiac for a new decade of non-toxic nerd cool, arriving in 2000 with serene laboratory confidence that big brains would fix everything.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Jakeyla’s best friend, Samiyah Zeigler — also a 2018 Ballou graduate — said Jakeyla is know as the brainiac on campus.
    — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 12 June 2018
  • Jacob was highly coveted by the usual brainiac football schools, earning scholarship offers from Northwestern, Notre Dame and Rutgers.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Among the many impressive and articulate brainiacs featured here, Orlowski's one-time contemporary at Stanford, Tristan Harris, grabs the lion's share of the screen time.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2020
  • There’s no way of knowing who’s the brainiac in the Swift brood, but one Norwegian study showed the oldest child has an IQ that averages three points higher than that of the second oldest, while the second child, in turn, is one point smarter than the third.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • There’s something rare about Swain, who is a young brainiac, but one who has built his business the old-fashioned, pre-quant-trading and Excel models Wall Street way, via charm offensives that weave webs of tight relationships few rivals can match.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2025

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