intelligent individual

collocation in English

meaningsofintelligentandindividual

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intelligent
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈtel.ɪ.dʒənt/us
/ɪnˈtel.ə.dʒənt/
showing intelligence, or able to learn and understand ...
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individual
noun[C]
uk
/ˌɪn.dɪˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/us
/ˌɪn.dəˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/
a single person or thing, especially when compared to the group or set to which ...
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(Definition ofintelligentandindividualfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The particular difficulties that are experienced by these pupils can seriously hamper an otherwise normally or highlyintelligentindividualwhen expressing him/herself using conventional forms.
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We hope by these means to breed a generation of keen andintelligentindividualand family users of the new health service.
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The farmer to-day is an extremelyintelligentindividual, and is anxious to take every advantage of any information that he can obtain.
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This theory shows an astonishing contradiction: an extremelyintelligentindividualis expected to forget more hastily than one who has a slow mentality.
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Showing that more intelligent individuals perform better than less intelligent ones in some reasoning problems is clearly relevant for evaluating the rationality of human thinking.
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She is an extremelyintelligentindividualwho is friendly at the same time, but her curiosity tends to get the better of her in various situations.
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A moreintelligentindividualwas thought to be able to more easily accommodate experiences into existing cognitive structures to develop structures more compatible with environmental stimuli.
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For this reason, anintelligentindividualhas stored up more memory in his mind which will cause interferences and impair their ability to recall specific information.
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It is irritating to have able and intelligent individuals standing before us playing a straight bat and ending up looking positively foolish.
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It is a body of intelligent individuals.
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The explanation may again be that more intelligent individuals manage their synapses better.
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Tzeentch is primarily worshipped by ambitious and intelligent individuals who seek to raise themselves above others by any means necessary.
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Consequently, emotionally intelligent individuals are better at expressing and identifying their emotions and those of the people around them.
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The stated intent was to recruit intelligent individuals by presenting a series of puzzles which were to be solved, each in order, to find the next.
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He stated that he was hoping to inspire a revolution of the small minority of strong-minded and intelligent individuals against the idiocracy of the weak-minded masses.
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Another hypothesis is that it is actually intelligence that causes social relationships to become more complex, because intelligent individuals are more difficult to learn to know.
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