How to Use brainiac in a Sentence

brainiac

noun

• In no time, this brainiac’s wrestling aliens and free soloing up a rocky cliff.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 12 June 2019
• Well, the bubbly brainiacs at Dom Pérignon are about to make that dream a reality.
  — Katie Robinson, Town & Country, 26 July 2017
• But if Weddle couldn’t fend off blocks or make tackles, being a brainiac wouldn’t be enough.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2022
• Now, because the Redmond brainiacs can’t (or won’t) manage that mess, those servers are going dark.
  — Scott Thill, WIRED, 1 May 2008
• In the ’70s, D&D was like Comic-Con as a table game — an abstract geek-brainiac’s version of cosplay.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023
• Just the title was about the highest brainiac accolade that could be conferred.
  — al.com, 27 June 2019
• And now one of those receivers will be Stills, a brainiac who can align anywhere and read defenses while running routes.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 4 Sep. 2019
• In Israel, Max meets eight other junior brainiacs who have gathered, like her, to save the planet.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2018
• Familiar tropes get a raucous refresh when an underdog brainiac teams up with misfit dancers to pop-and-lock like a champ.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2020
• Understand, Reich holds her own in a league of serious brainiacs.
  — David Whiting, Orange County Register, 6 Apr. 2017
• The bulk of the movie takes place in 1955 in the remote fictional desert town of Asteroid City, the site of the annual Junior Stargazers convention honoring a bunch of teenage brainiacs.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2023
• Meanwhile there’s a new bad guy to reckon with: Merrick (Harry Melling), a bratty brainiac who likes to refer to himself as the youngest billionaire in pharma.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 July 2020
• This year, Amazon lifted the veil and invited a handful of reporters into Mr. Bezos’s brainiac pow-wow.
  — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
• Male lead Schwartzman earned laughs as an awkward war photographer grieving his late wife and herding three young daughters and a brainiac son.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 23 May 2023
• Telephone and cable companies moved too slow chasing those speeds to please the brainiacs in Mountain View, so the company created Google Fiber.
  — Scott Canon, kansascity.com, 12 June 2017
• But again, there’s probably a whole load more business decisions and brainiac ideas that will probably help that idea flourish.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2021
• Jakeyla’s best friend, Samiyah Zeigler — also a 2018 Ballou graduate — said Jakeyla is know as the brainiac on campus.
  — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 12 June 2018
• The tall, dark, and handsome master of the universe; the harried brainiac husband; the overworked and underappreciated wife; the brash young rebel: Joe, Gordon, Donna, and Cameron were, for a while, little more than the sum of their parts.
  — Sean T. Collins, Esquire, 23 Aug. 2016
• Now settled in the fictitious Port Oswego, Ore., the congenial brainiac has become popular among students and teachers alike.
  — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
• That made Grissom the ideal brainiac for a new decade of non-toxic nerd cool, arriving in 2000 with serene laboratory confidence that big brains would fix everything.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• Some geniuses look like the archetypal wunderkind founder or the disheveled tech brainiac—but many great minds don’t fit those rather limited demographic contours.
  — Ross McCammon, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
• From a baseball standpoint, the Rays are a marvel: Innovative brainiacs who despite their revenue shortfalls have put an entertaining product on the field for more than a decade while quite literally changing the way the game is played.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 20 June 2019
• Among the many impressive and articulate brainiacs featured here, Orlowski's one-time contemporary at Stanford, Tristan Harris, grabs the lion's share of the screen time.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2020
• But the Stallman affair touches on something else: a simmering resentment of the treatment of women by the scruffy brainiacs who built our digital world, as well as the Brahmins of academia and business who benefited from the hackers’ effort.
  — Wired, 18 Sep. 2019
• As those of us with Flavia-mania know from previous books, the plucky adolescent is terrifically entertaining — the world’s foremost brainiac/chemist/sleuth/busybody/smarty-pants.
  — Adam Woog, The Seattle Times, 26 Jan. 2018
• Jacob was highly coveted by the usual brainiac football schools, earning scholarship offers from Northwestern, Notre Dame and Rutgers.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
• Founded in 1985, the Qualcomm image is less a collection of swashbuckling capitalists looking to extend market share and more an assemblage of determined brainiacs looking to invent the next generation of mobile technology.
  — Rob Nikolewski, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2024