intellectuals
- plural of intellectual.
Example Sentences
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Otero Alcantara, a self-taught performance artist, sculptor and painter, rose to prominence in 2020 as leader of the San Isidro protest movement of artists and intellectuals.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Instead, she places Black Americans, Black intellectuals, and Black constitutional struggle where they have always belonged: at the center of the 14th Amendment.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
Beginning in the 1870s, atheism and indifference to religion became popular, especially among younger intellectuals.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
And while it details Jewish participation in, and influence on, global soccer, it also challenges the cliché that Jews were intellectuals, artists and laborers but not athletes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
They think they’re being modern men, intellectuals, on account of their education, I suppose.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
