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as in genius
a very smart person
many of our most renowned thinkers gathered for the symposium
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as in mind
the part of a person that feels, thinks, perceives, wills, and especially reasons
loves crossword puzzles, bridge, and other pastimes that makes her use the old thinker
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Recent Examples of thinker
Tradition of separation The idea of separate spheres of spiritual and secular functions and authority was advanced by religious and secular thinkers to benefit both religion and the state.
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Steven K. Green,
The Conversation,
2 July 2026
The Deeper Shift Hiding Underneath The AI Debate Two thinkers, decades apart, asked the same question in different ways.
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Dreen Yang,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
Her generation was one of thinkers, politically committed to defining how individuals were to be shaped as citizens of a civilized nation.
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Literary Hub,
1 July 2026
The program of participants brings together a cross-disciplinary group of artists and thinkers.
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
29 June 2026
These Virginia aristocrats had been raised on the same Enlightenment thinkers—David Hume and Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire—as John Adams and Samuel Adams had.
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James Traub,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
While agile new companies can offer top AI thinkers massive equity upside, Hassabis’s confidence is rooted in Google’s structural advantages, including its unparalleled ecosystem of data, integrated hardware, and sheer computing power.
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Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
23 June 2026
That is truly a pity because this brilliant thinker revolutionized both mathematics and physics.
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Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
23 June 2026
In recent years, writers, thinkers, and podcasters have advanced rival prescriptions for restoring the economic mobility that twentieth-century Americans came to see as their birthright.
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Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
22 June 2026
Steven K. Green,
The Conversation,
2 July 2026
The Deeper Shift Hiding Underneath The AI Debate Two thinkers, decades apart, asked the same question in different ways.
—
Dreen Yang,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
Her generation was one of thinkers, politically committed to defining how individuals were to be shaped as citizens of a civilized nation.
—
Literary Hub,
1 July 2026
The program of participants brings together a cross-disciplinary group of artists and thinkers.
—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
29 June 2026
These Virginia aristocrats had been raised on the same Enlightenment thinkers—David Hume and Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire—as John Adams and Samuel Adams had.
—
James Traub,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
While agile new companies can offer top AI thinkers massive equity upside, Hassabis’s confidence is rooted in Google’s structural advantages, including its unparalleled ecosystem of data, integrated hardware, and sheer computing power.
—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
23 June 2026
That is truly a pity because this brilliant thinker revolutionized both mathematics and physics.
—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
23 June 2026
In recent years, writers, thinkers, and podcasters have advanced rival prescriptions for restoring the economic mobility that twentieth-century Americans came to see as their birthright.
—
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
22 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thinker
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The market is oversaturated, and Riley is a genius for not only recognizing that but realizing that all of these new DJs are going to need lawyers to negotiate their contracts.
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Combining all the hits of a Southern breakfast (eggs, hashbrowns, sausage) into one oven-ready dish is a stroke of pure genius that lends itself to occasion brunches and morning celebrations.
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Thousands of fans in Mexico lost their minds and shook the earth.
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At the beach, maybe, at a barbecue or whatever place sets fireworks pinwheeling through your holiday-happy mind.
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After climbing the Azkaban Escape Tower to the top, repel-style, young wizards-in-training, Clark and Emily Friscia, were ready to go home.
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And two other high-flying AI wizards — Anthropic and OpenAI — are working on their own mega offerings.
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By triggering the release of a natural growth factor in the brain and modulating neural pathways associated with addiction and reward, ibogaine restores healthy dopamine function and reduces cravings, Barsuglia said.
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The answer to us was to stay calm, use our brains and think our way through it.
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His ebullience, keen intellect and warmth jump off the pages.
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Recognizing her extraordinary intellect, the Wheatley family educated her, and by age 20 her poetry had earned publication in London.
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Didion’s genius was to show that the mystery of the psyche is integral to the mysteries of politics and history.
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Director Paul Weiland, who lived out the exact same bar-mitzvah scenario his protagonist does, nails the specifics of a summer that, for better and for worse, remains ingrained into the national psyche.
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Use the ax head of a garden mattock to cut through the roots at the base of the stump.
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The debate usually comes to a head in the summer, when high inland temperatures send bigger crowds to the beach, sometimes straining the mood of residents who live there.
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Bobbi Queen, a former senior fashion editor at WWD who was known for her intelligence, wit and sense of style, died Thursday at her New York apartment at the age of 84.
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Autonomy with human oversight Artificial intelligence handles much of CobraJet’s flight through an autonomous autopilot supported by electro-optical and infrared cameras.
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“Thinker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thinker. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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