as in intellect
the ability to learn and understand or to deal with problems
the president's inner circle of advisers just didn't seem to have the brainpower to deal with the crisis
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Recent Examples of brainpower
Is the collective brainpower of the staff built to squeeze the most out of its personnel, even if that personnel (light receivers, a pass-catching tight end, etc.) was not amassed to run the ball?
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Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
Unlike humans, who focus more on visual information, dogs dedicate much of their brainpower to analyzing scents.
—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
And, with all due respect to the people doing the work, none of these tasks takes much brainpower.
—Gene Marks, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
One dazzling 2014 demonstration of Watson’s brainpower showed off its potential to transform medicine using AI—a goal that IBM CEO Virginia Rometty often calls the company’s moon shot.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2019
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Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
Unlike humans, who focus more on visual information, dogs dedicate much of their brainpower to analyzing scents.
—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
And, with all due respect to the people doing the work, none of these tasks takes much brainpower.
—Gene Marks, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
One dazzling 2014 demonstration of Watson’s brainpower showed off its potential to transform medicine using AI—a goal that IBM CEO Virginia Rometty often calls the company’s moon shot.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brainpower
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Along with interactivity, embodied experiences become multi-sensory that bypass the intellect and speak to the heart, connecting facts to emotions and emotions to lasting action.—
Victoria Bousis,
Rolling Stone,
22 May 2025
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Season 2 has robbed Ellie of her agency, her rage, her competency, her intellect.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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According to a new assessment from no fewer than 11 countries’ intelligence agencies, the hacker group has been targeting a broad array of technology and logistics firms involved in providing aid to Ukraine.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
24 May 2025
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The group is a terrorist organization made up of operatives, spies and intelligence officials from agencies around the world who want to create a new world order.—
Keith Langston,
People.com,
24 May 2025
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The Personal Brand Is the Leadership Brand Demis Hassabis — cofounder and CEO of Google DeepMind — isn’t a personal brand in the conventional sense.—
Jeetendr Sehdev,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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And it was done like a theater production in the sense that every time there was a character, the role was played by an actor.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2025
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“Brainpower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brainpower. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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