as in scholar
a person of deep wisdom or learning
a savant in the field of medical ethics
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Recent Examples of savant
McVay, another offensive savant, seems to treat special teams as a necessary evil.
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Mike Sando, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
But a religious savant’s preparations to be mummified occur against the backdrop of food shortages, riots, and a communications blackout from the rest of the Imperial Radch… which sounds like Ooioiaa going out with more of a bang than a whimper.
—Literary Hub, 2 Jan. 2026
Rossein figured the book — a 1974 memoir of a swaggering Jewish table tennis savant named Marty Reisman in mid-century New York — might interest her husband, the filmmaker Josh Safdie.
—Julien Levy, Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2025
When other stars wore suits and naked gowns; these style savants slipped into outfits that were decidedly more polarizing.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2025
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Mike Sando, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
But a religious savant’s preparations to be mummified occur against the backdrop of food shortages, riots, and a communications blackout from the rest of the Imperial Radch… which sounds like Ooioiaa going out with more of a bang than a whimper.
—Literary Hub, 2 Jan. 2026
Rossein figured the book — a 1974 memoir of a swaggering Jewish table tennis savant named Marty Reisman in mid-century New York — might interest her husband, the filmmaker Josh Safdie.
—Julien Levy, Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2025
When other stars wore suits and naked gowns; these style savants slipped into outfits that were decidedly more polarizing.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for savant
scholar
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Legal scholars say this framing is intentional.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Jan. 2026
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Take Habermas, whose defense of Israeli ethnic cleansing was protested immediately by such eminent scholars as Adam Tooze and Amia Srinivasan.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Savant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/savant. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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