intelligent people

collocation in English

meaningsofintelligentandpeople

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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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people
noun[plural]
uk
/ˈpiː.pəl/us
/ˈpiː.pəl/
men, women, ...
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(Definition ofintelligentandpeoplefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There areintelligentpeopleon both sides of the fence.
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If mathematics were essentially just successful reasoning then its basic structure, when correctly presented, would be easily mastered by allintelligentpeople.
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Alternatively, perhaps highlyintelligentpeopleare better able to use different, more complex processes.
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However, to all intents and purposes, it operated as a marriage bureau for educated and/orintelligentpeople.
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It must be an easy and comfortable intellectual slide, since so manyintelligentpeoplemake it.
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A wise andintelligentpeoplewith vigorous thoughts has turned away from me, has not valued me as the gentiles of all lands do.
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This finding implies that moreintelligentpeoplehave larger information-processing capacity, enabling them to understand and hence accept the axiom more readily.
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Veryintelligentpeopleadapt better, and work the ideational system to their own advantage.
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Approaches that are regularly eschewed byintelligentpeopleare not likely to be adopted as normative.
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Does the finding imply that moreintelligentpeopleare also more rational, or that the more intelligent people simply have larger computational capacity?
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Their position is hence an elitist version of the naturalistic fallacy wherein normative status is ascribed to what moreintelligentpeopledo.
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However, if moreintelligentpeopleused the mathematical interpretation more often, why should this condemn the responses of those who reasoned differently?
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Couples obviously needed to consider the number of children they wanted and mostintelligentpeoplewere aware of the increasing need and of the possibility for birth control.
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Is it because it is perfectly obvious to allintelligentpeoplewhy dates of birth are so relevant to the fundamentals of company law?
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She did what she could, as did her advisers and writers, but one cannot sell bad goods tointelligentpeople.
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I certainly cannot say that theintelligentpeoplehave intelligent representatives.
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It has a relatively good infrastructure and, above all, a tough, enduring andintelligentpeople.
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That will be very difficult forintelligentpeopleto believe.
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It is to be settled by decent, honest,intelligentpeoplewith ability to weigh up human character and conduct.
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It is this that accounts for the attraction of monetarism for so many important andintelligentpeople.
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