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The jazz polymath wrote, played, produced, and mixed everything on his new solo album, weaving overlapping loops and knotty counterpoints into a dynamic suite of interconnected pieces.—Mark Richardson, Pitchfork, 12 Mar. 2026 And there are details on her life with her third husband, the polymath George Cooper.—Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026 Previously the site has published excerpts and shorts from authors like Stephanie Wambugu, Erin Somers, and the late polymath, Joe Brainard.—Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026 Among the iconic polymath’s many (many) achievements, the 15th century thinker is famous for devising an angled contraption to help his experiments exploring friction physics.—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for polymath
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Etymology
Greek polymathēs very learned, from poly- + manthanein to learn — more at mathematical