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intelligent

If you are intelligent, you can understand difficult ideas easily and think clearly. Any intelligent person should be able to understand this. Today's children are more intelligent than children in the past. Baboons are highly intelligent animals and learn to meet their needs in many different ways. If an idea or something said is intelligent, it shows good understanding and clear thinking. That's probably the most intelligent comment I've heard today. If another living thing or a machine is intelligent, it can think in ways that are similar to us. We will not likely find intelligent life of other planets.

intelligent

(= well-informed) possessing sound knowledge well-informed readers having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree is there intelligent life in the universe? an intelligent question (= healthy, sound) exercising or showing good judgment healthy scepticism a healthy fear of rattlesnakes the healthy attitude of French laws healthy relations between labor and management an intelligent solution a sound approach to the problem sound advice no sound explanation for his decision (= reasoning) endowed with the capacity to reason

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Simple sentences

I am not more intelligent than him.
I am no more intelligent than he.
Intelligent animals can help people.
He is so intelligent that he stands out in class.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Mary is both intelligent and kind.
The man is intelligent and industrious.
Jack is the most intelligent boy in the class.
Some scientists think that dolphins are the most intelligent animals in the world except for man, and that we may be able to talk with them one day.
Compared with his brother, he is not so intelligent.
It appeared to me that he was very intelligent.
Even an intelligent child cannot understand.
He is as intelligent as any student in the class.
Tom is so intelligent that he stands out in class.
The male ape is intelligent by nature.
The dolphin is a very intelligent animal.
Can there be a computer intelligent enough to tell a joke?
He is less intelligent than me.
He's intelligent, but I still don't like him.
He is an intelligent boy.
They consider him intelligent.
She is less intelligent than you.

Movie subtitles

All of our searching is leading to one ultimate goal.. finding intelligent life somewhere in the vastness of the universe.
And it would most likely be an indication that we're getting closer to finding an intelligent civilisation.
We're looking for another civilisation that's either like us or not like us, but is clearly intelligent.
With so many stars and so many planets out there, it would truly be a surprise if intelligent life did not exist somewhere in the universe, perhaps even nearby in our own galaxy.
Right now, in our own Milky Way galaxy alone, there may be numerous intelligent alien civilisations.
The chances that two intelligent civilisations have the ability to communicate, the desire to communicate, and are around long enough to communicate makes this cosmic chat even tougher.
For them to exist in any numbers in the galaxy, they would have to have long lifetimes as intelligent, technological, communicating civilisations.
An intelligent madman would rather serve the one who can grant him life.
But you're the more intelligent one.
And mind you, I wasn't precocious, just moderately intelligent.
What for, my intelligent friend?
Do you, as an intelligent scientist, dare to dismiss as superstition the principles underlying Tibetan magic, voodooism, thought transference?
Perhaps I'm intelligent.
That's intelligent.
Is that intelligent banking?
He's quite intelligent.
You're intelligent?
But if he does Remember this, Inspector. We have a very intelligent man to deal with.
Every murderer, however intelligent he is, generally makes one mistake. I'm happy to say.
Here we are, two intelligent people, and we can't find anything to quarrel about.
Some of the more intelligent police will, I trust.
He was a good kid, reliable, intelligent.
She's sweet, intelligent, the perfect playmate.
MY DEAR FELLOW, THAT'S VERY INTELLIGENT OF YOU.
So intelligent.
Well, Mr. Brody, she's very intelligent.
I see we've got some very intelligent peace officers in this town, Stavrogin.
He's an intelligent guy, not like this big bully!
You're an intelligent man.
My son, there's murder in every intelligent man's heart.
Vicky, if you don't make your choice like an intelligent, civilized.
They're too intelligent to embark on a project which would mean the end of civilization.
She's a beautiful, charming, intelligent young girl, isn't she, Mr. Smith?
You don't think an intelligent girl would throw herself away on a penniless young nobody?
There's something wrong, and we have to face it in an intelligent way.
The long and short of it, Craig, is I believe you're honest and intelligent.

News and current affairs

Pragmatic and highly intelligent, sooner or later every issue receives the full attention of his forensic curiosity.
Waving a chauvinist banner, however, may not be the best solution for dealing with international problems, especially if the West is intelligent and united.
Rupert Wyatt's Rise of the Planet of the Apes is the seventh film in a series based on Pierre Boule's 1963 novel, Planet of the Apes, about a world populated by highly intelligent simians.
The bottom line is that we can't predict where the threat will emerge, so we need a distributed, intelligent detection system.
The attraction of this metaphor may be attributable to the excessive trust that Americans place not only in their army, which is understandable, but in force in general, which is much less understandable in the case of an intelligent people.
Ben Bernanke is, I think, a very good choice for Fed chair because he is so intelligent, honest, pragmatic, and clear-sighted in his vision of the economy.
Like sniffer dogs, they search the economy for such defects and ponder how they can be corrected through intelligent state intervention.
In this respect, Wolfowitz, while by all accounts an intelligent and pleasant person, did not do himself any favors.
Whaling should stop because it brings needless suffering to social, intelligent animals capable of enjoying their own lives.
To say that economies are the products of intelligent design means only that some human intelligence or intelligences lies behind the design.
Most of the time in America, the process of intelligent design of the economy has gone well: that is why Americans are so relatively and absolutely rich today.
Intelligent speeches, spirited debates and clever slogans were conspicuous by their absence in this election.
This goal may seem to be beyond even wealthier countries' means; but the intelligent collection, analysis, and use of educational data could make a big difference.
We live in an age of financial capitalism, and the only intelligent way forward - for unions and other workers' associations - is for these bodies to help their members make increasingly sophisticated use of the tools of risk management.
But, promisingly - and surprisingly, given the somewhat toxic state of US politics - it attracted broad support and intelligent commentary from many mainstream pundits.
Another is that increasingly intelligent machines will reduce the demand for advanced skills, and that the economic advantage of having these skills will decline as a result.
It is also possible, however, that the drop in the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers represents competition from increasingly intelligent machines.
The cyber domain of computers and related electronic activities is a complex man-made environment, and human adversaries are purposeful and intelligent.
He was intelligent, impressed by technological progress, perhaps even gifted, but untutored and impulsive; he reveled in the trappings of power and delighted in uniforms.
Such research has confirmed that building the brain is just as important as feeding the body to produce healthy, intelligent, productive, and resilient adults.
Intelligent diplomacy beats brute force every time.
It is surprising that this has happened under Hu, a cautious and intelligent man.
Yet his African roots give him a unique capacity to transform American relations with Africa, elevating the importance of African self-reliance and achievement, while striving to make American aid more intelligent and effective.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski is an intelligent politician who understands the link between currency stability and political success.

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