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Meanings of intellectuals in English

Russian
интеллектуал
Portuguese
intelectuais
Spanish
pensador
Catalan
intel·lectual
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Person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about the reality of society.

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интеллектуал
Usage of intellectuals in English
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I think new technologies impact this idea of public intellectuals very directly.
The Guardian
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It isn't only the so-called psychics that 'see.' There are also intellectuals.
Grand junction
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It has provoked national protests and petitions, particularly from artists and intellectuals.
The Irish Times
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Arrests of dissidents & scholars & intellectuals considered to be dissidents, continue.
The new yorker
5
In most places, only the intellectuals were pro-war; business leaders were not.
The white war: life and death on the italian front 1915-1919
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Determined to correct this, he began working with local historians and intellectuals.
The Irish Times
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Soon after, intellectuals, who had initially resisted the German language, followed suit.
BBC
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So you see, I have absolutely no need for those ill-mannered intellectuals.
Genellan: planetfall
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Adults and serious intellectuals used to love ruminating over this stuff, too.
Wired
10
How those called intellectuals are often not so much wise as wordy.
The Tyranny Of Words
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Anger had spread well beyond the usual community of activists and intellectuals.
The Guardian
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The house intellectuals of the Reagan era welcomed him into their salons.
The new yorker
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Novelist, editor, scholar, she was one of our most important public intellectuals.
The Guardian
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Like so many modern young intellectuals he was impatient with feudal superstitions.
Lost in translation
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And intellectuals who do not subscribe to this religion are discriminated against.
Drawing Down the Moon
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Before the war, Krysia's guests would have been artists, intellectuals and socialites.
The kommandant's girl
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