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noun as in gift of high intellect

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ability, accomplishment, acumen, aptitude, brilliance, flair, imagination, ingenuity, inspiration, intelligence, inventiveness, originality, prodigy, prowess, talent, wisdom

Strong matches

acuteness, aptness, astuteness, bent, brain, capability, capacity, creativity, discernment, endowment, expertise, faculty, grasp, head, inclination, knack, perspicacity, power, precocity, propensity, sagacity, understanding, virtuosity

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That is the genius of boxing promotion, the understanding that people will pay to watch the downfall of the other.

Mr. Turing, a math genius and secret hero of World War II, was mistreated by England near the end of his life.

It put England on the way to triumph, confirmed late on by a second goal when Jude Bellingham's shot bounced in off Greece keeper Odysseas Vlachodimos, then a flash of genius from debutant Curtis Jones.

“Something genius always falls out of that,” he said, “and Dwight knows that. I love that he’s still like that.”

In the song “A Bowler Hat,” Sondheim’s genius is unmistakable in the way he finds the truth of what’s been culturally lost and gained in a simple clothing metaphor.