as in genius
a very smart person
a techie who always has to have the latest gadget that the brainiacs in Silicon Valley have cooked up
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Recent Examples of brainiac
The company hired a team of brainiacs and gave them latitude to pursue research questions in service of the perfect brew.
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Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 25 May 2024
The bright-eyed Redmayne really fits the part of a brainiac – especially in a story about one of our greatest minds.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024
All this attaches the show’s brainiac spectacle to big humanistic ideas.
—James Poniewozik, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
Parrots and corvids have reputations as the brainiacs of the bird world.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2023
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Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 25 May 2024
The bright-eyed Redmayne really fits the part of a brainiac – especially in a story about one of our greatest minds.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024
All this attaches the show’s brainiac spectacle to big humanistic ideas.
—James Poniewozik, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
Parrots and corvids have reputations as the brainiacs of the bird world.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brainiac
Noun
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London is usually evocative, bursting with creative genius.—
Julian Randall,
Essence,
3 Mar. 2025
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Marlon Brando — On the Waterfront (1954) So much has been said about Marlon Brando's simmering Method genius during the early-'50s that watching his revolutionary approach to acting now couldn't possibly live up to the hype, right?—
EW.com,
EW.com,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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O’Reilly has Stanley Cup pedigree, defensive prowess and is a wizard at the faceoff dot.—
Jesse Granger,
The Athletic,
26 Feb. 2025
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Selena Gomez is making her return to the Disney+ series Wizards Beyond Waverly Place as free-wheeling wizard Alex Russo, and Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive first look from the episode.—
Calie Schepp,
EW.com,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Known for his flip-up sunglasses, Dwayne made being a math nerd cool, and his flirtatious antics and relationship with Whitley often took center stage.—
Emily Krauser,
People.com,
23 Feb. 2025
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Bravo! Adam Sandler’s Song: 50 Years In his song about 50 years of SNL, Sandler calls out things everyone knows about the show—that the cast is often visibly looking at cue cards—and things only SNL nerds and actual cast members know—that Steven Spielberg is a frequent visitor.—
Joe Berkowitz,
Vulture,
17 Feb. 2025
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Within the last decade, teams have used the S2 Cognition test to measure how quickly the brain can process information in real time.—
Cale Clinton,
The Athletic,
26 Feb. 2025
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Both drugs clear the brain of a substance called beta-amyloid, which forms the sticky plaques associated with Alzheimer's.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Brainiac.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brainiac. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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