brainy
Americanadjective
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brainier,
comparative
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brainiest
superlative
adjective
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Yudkowsky’s acolytes grew into the rationalist movement, a group of brainy, often libertarian-leaning outsiders who revel in logical debate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
In a World Cup where the boffins with their big brainy heads and their super computers are working overtime on who might play who in the last 32, there are other calculations worth conjuring with.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
While corvids and parrots are unquestionably brainy, they flounder with some cognitive tasks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
But the opportunity to mentor Tien — a rising 20-year-old American with a brainy game and similar background — proved intriguing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
In Hawaii, Barack’s intense and brainy side receded somewhat, while the laid-back part of him flourished.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
“Midnight Suns” comes from 2K Games’ Firaxis studio, known for brainier challenges like “Civilization” and “XCOM.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
Though they lack nerve cells, sponges have some of the same specialized genes for synapses that brainier creatures possess, studies have shown.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 3, 2021
Even you acknowledge this when the live studio audience doesn't laugh at one of your brainier opening punchlines.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2021
"It is gonna be a no brainier," Hong said.
From Reuters ● Sep. 13, 2021
It knew none of the games that the magpie invented save one, and that was a kind of aerial "peep-bo" to which the brainier bird lured it by means of a prize.
From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
"We now know that some of the brainiest people around have or had dyslexia, including Einstein!" he told BookTrust in 2020.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2023
Share your score with friends and compete to see who’s the brainiest.
From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2023
The brainiest organization in baseball suddenly looks like the most foolish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2021
“Rick and Morty” is one of the funniest, brainiest, and most philosophically dense comedies on TV, let alone on Adult Swim.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2019
As much money as Hamp has made, and still makes, he would be broke today if his money and his business weren’t handled by Gladys, who is one of the brainiest women I ever met.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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