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‘An intellect can be keen.’

[⟨det intellect.n⟩ keen.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Her intellect was not only keen, it was military, handling strategy, tactics and supplies with comprehensive scope and efficient focus.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

David K. Hill was remembered by more than 300 mourners Friday as not just a philanthropist and developer but a family man with a keen intellect and insatiable curiosity.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Falcor Your score: % 50 obedience, % 79 intelligence, and % 86 ethicality Loyal, sagacious, and with his head in the clouds, Falcor is the perfect pet for those who are adventurous, innocent at heart, and have a keen intellect.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

You need keen intellect and lightning fast reflexes in this line of work.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Finally, thanks to Javier Vazquez Gomez whose youthful enthusiasm, optimism and keen intellect made my visit all the more enjoyable.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

This district is 60 % Old 5th and 40 % Old 7th, which makes it a tough sell for any Democratic challenger to win there, especially against Stivers, a Clay County lawyer who combines the keen legal intellect of one of the region’s smartest lawyers with the good poltiical horse sense of a man raised on the bare – knuckled politics of Clay county.
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In Wikipedia:

He had great industry, great powers of analysis, a keen intellect and unbounded energy and pertinacity.
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In Wikipedia:

He was well-liked by his classmates, and admired for his keen intellect and unusual sense of humor.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I have a friend blessed with an intellect as keen as a drill, who, though he takes an interest in aesthetics, has never during a life of almost forty years been guilty of an aesthetic emotion.
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In Wikipedia:

His dreams often came to him as cryptic, ambiguous visions, but Wes’ keen intellect enabled him to properly interpret them.
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In Wikipedia:

The qualities for which his publications stand out most are painstaking factual research, mostly of manuscripts, combined with wide scholarly reading, critical acumen and keen intellect.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

He had not been impressed by Curunir, who, although undoubtedly of keen intellect, had been cold and more concerned with booklore than with getting to know any of the Elves and learning from their wisdom.
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In Wikipedia:

She was somewhat plain in appearance, but Garfield was attracted to her keen intellect and appetite for knowledge.
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In the British National Corpus:

Even when he was relatively young he very much enjoyed exercising his keen intellect in analysing the controversies of his day.
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In Wikipedia:

She was good humored and showed a keen intellect but, like most people of her time, she did not learn to read or write.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The Professor, with his keen intellect, has figured out what is happening before everyone else, and invites his friends (from his previous adventure) to barricade themselves with him and his wife in his house.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

George Washington was arguably our best president despite not having the keen intellect of his successor John Adams and yet all historians rank Washington as among the best due to his leadership skills and stellar character.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

He has been far better to me than I deserve. * I am grateful for Kelsey… for her photographer’s eye and her poet’s soul, for her beautiful heart, the way she notices the unnoticed ones, for her funky style, her eclectic musical taste, and the way she makes me laugh. * I am grateful for Jake… for a thousand million hugs, for his kind words, his remarkable artistic ability, his lovely songs, his keen intellect, and for the way he experiences things deeply and with intensity. * I am grateful for Joshua… for the way every day with him is filled with wonder, for the way he celebrates in a big way, for his never ending projects, for a treasure trove of love notes and cards, for three kisses every night. * I am grateful for friends… you know who you are… who see more in me than I can see in myself; who know all my crap and love me anyway.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

His intellect was keen and rapacious enough prevent his lapse into any kind of ideological or critical dogma, and his slightly cultivated role as the aloof but opinionated observer of the major convulsions of his age, whether in art or revolution, made him one of the most perceptive chroniclers of it.
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Queried on 2013-06-20.