Example Sentences

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“He’s an intellectually demanding person to work for,” said Richard Brassington, who worked for Shamieh from 2012 to 2015.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

The majority dismissed Hamm as improvidently granted, sparing the life of the defendant, Joseph Smith, and rejecting Alabama’s request for freer rein to execute intellectually disabled people.

From Slate • May 23, 2026

Not everyone has a job that is purely intellectually stimulating and can be carried into their senior years, but it helps.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

I write about politics — I’m working on an article right now that’s an intellectually fueled argument that I would be willing to defend about political and sociological conditions as I see them.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

At Harvard, a fellow student marveled, “he intellectually looted the place,” drinking deeply of physics and chemistry, of course, but also mathematics, philosophy, and French literature.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik