highbrowism

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for highbrowism
Noun
  • Prior research has indicated caffeine consumption may be associated with acute reductions in gray matter volume.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 Feb. 2025
  • One particular question the researchers wanted to answer was whether the influence of caffeine on gray matter was a result of the drug’s effect on sleep, as it has been shown that sleep deprivation or disruption can lead to acute reductions in gray matter.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Just look at Kayvon Thibodeaux, who entered the league not just as a top edge rusher but as an entrepreneur and cultural commentator—launching a crypto literacy initiative during his draft campaign and openly challenging narratives around Black athletes and intellectualism.
    Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • But Kennedy’s Camelot at least tried to elevate idealism, intellectualism, and the modern elegance of a pillbox hat.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Foundation ownership challenges traditional shareholder capitalism's profit-first mentality and is gaining recognition as a viable way to control large public companies.
    Tima Bansal, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
  • Trump ‘dropping the guilt-by-issuance mentality’ Jeff Ifrah, a veteran gaming and crypto lawyer, said the administration is shedding a central legal theory from the Biden years: that simply launching a token could constitute a regulatory violation.
    Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The Bidens lost their son, Beau, to a brain tumor in 2015.
    Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 22 May 2025
  • The lack of oxygen to his brain caused irreversible damage and left him in a coma.
    Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Jackson disregarded sound economic reasoning, common sense, and the entreaties of Bank supporters and vetoed the recharter bill.
    Time, Time, 23 May 2025
  • Together, these factors — except, of course, the driving record — create a confusing and unfair ratemaking process that lacks not only transparency but common sense.
    Alexi Giannoulias, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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“Highbrowism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/highbrowism. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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