Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Intelligence is the quality of being intelligent or clever.
She’s a woman of exceptional ~.
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2.
Intelligence is the ability to think, reason, and understand instead of doing things automatically or by instinct.
Nerve cells, after all, do not have ~ of their own.
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Intelligence is information that is gathered by the government or the army about their country’s enemies and their activities.
Why was military ~ so lacking?
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