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The phrase "an intellectual type" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is characterized by their intellectual pursuits or qualities.
Example: "She has always been drawn to an intellectual type, preferring deep conversations over small talk."
Alternatives: "a cerebral person" or "an academic individual".
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I'm not an intellectual type".
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As I listened, I got a sense of Machaut as a familiar intellectual type — the self-imprisoned man who hides his passion behind a panoply of masks.
A winning sports team might be inspired by a fire breather like Vince Lombardi, or a fatherly presence like Joe Torre, or a diffident intellectual type like Bill Belichick.
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I was bemoaning my total lack of ability to throw and catch, and Timo, an architect and intellectual type, said he had the exact same problem; we'd both have to find someone else to handle the sports instruction.
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"She maintained that women were supposed to be feminine, and not too dogmatic and not overshadow their husband, but she greatly overshadowed my father, who was a very pure, unaggressive, intellectual type," Frick says.
One encounters an uptight civil servant, Henry St John, watching CND marchers ("average age about 20, of the intellectual type, hardly a hat among them").
It comes as a surprise to some Australians to learn that their current Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, not viewed by everyone as the intellectual type, was also a Rhodes scholar, who graduated in 1983 with a 2 2 in philosophy and politics.
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