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  • Gail: I didn't watch this show, but I'm guessing the homeschooled genuis is supposed to be Christopher Paolini.

    But I Play One on TV Roger Sutton 2008

  • Mr. Hitchcock has often been called a genuis movie auteur, and director.

    Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock 2008

  • I love crosswords, and I finally beat my grandmother, the Jeopardy watching crossword genuis at Scrabble.

    dailycomic Diary Entry dailycomic 2008

  • After reading the entire post I am left to wonder why it is that when my spouse reads it here the concepts expressed are "genuis", meanwhile the same concepts discussed between myself and one of my RL-friend guildmates over a beer are the product of drunken overthinking.

    Trust, Contingency, and WoW Guilds 2006

  • - Page 299, para 2, fixed typo ( "genuis") chapter 16

    The Guns of Shiloh A Story of the Great Western Campaign 1890

  • Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, who declared Carell's performance "genuis", while

    The First Post: Latest 2010

  • That's our "genuis" speaking off teleprompter again.

    Latest Articles 2010

  • He was obviously a musical genuis and that he was the motivation for a multitude of artists which were to come after him.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Derivatives Clearinghouses and Exchanges 2010

  • It would be thirteen years later — upon reading Dr. Beatrice Hinkle's just-published translation of C.G. Jung's Psychology of the Unconscious — before Jack London would become conscious of the deep source of his own creative genuis: the gift of what Jung calls "primordial vision" - i.e., the artist's ability to articulate mythic narratives through archetypal images or universal relevance of London's masterpiece.

    America's Greatest World Novel 2010

  • Gotta love the genuis of Apple being able to convince customers to pay “only” US$30 for a service pack of bug-fixes and tweaks.

    Hands On With Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Dev Preview) | Lifehacker Australia 2009

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