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Six example sentences with cerebral, each labelled with its topic.
Strategy titles reward a cerebral player who plans nine turns ahead rather than one with the fastest hands.
Gaming
He is a cerebral point guard, reading the defense from the logo and calling the counter before the screen arrives.
Basketball
Her lectures are deliberately cerebral, asking students to follow an argument for an hour without a single anecdote.
Philosophy
The film is deliberately cerebral, unfolding as a two-hour argument between physicists rather than a chase.
Movies
Her novels are cerebral puzzles, more interested in how a character thinks than in what she feels.
Literature
The composer's late quartets are cerebral works, built from strict patterns that reward a listener with a score in hand.
Music
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