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Recent Examples of Renaissance man
The ‘Renaissance man,’ tireless worker, culture-builder tasked with turning Colorado around
Grading The Week: CU Buffs great Travis Hunter took about 6 seconds to win Jacksonville’s hearts
Beck entered Monday’s game hitting .264 with a team-high eight home runs.
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Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 19 May 2025
Remembered as a real Renaissance man, a political leader known for being the country’s second prime minister and a lover of alchemy.
—Valentina Di Donato, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
This French automotive wonder was the creation of Gabriel Voisin, an architect, an airplane builder, and all-round Renaissance man.
—Howard Walker, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2025
Australian performance artist, designer, model and musician Leigh Bowery (1961-1994) was a Renaissance man who pushed the boundaries of art and gender, bursting onto the London post-punk club scene in the 1980s and making an impact on the worlds of fashion and art.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 19 May 2025
Remembered as a real Renaissance man, a political leader known for being the country’s second prime minister and a lover of alchemy.
—Valentina Di Donato, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
This French automotive wonder was the creation of Gabriel Voisin, an architect, an airplane builder, and all-round Renaissance man.
—Howard Walker, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2025
Australian performance artist, designer, model and musician Leigh Bowery (1961-1994) was a Renaissance man who pushed the boundaries of art and gender, bursting onto the London post-punk club scene in the 1980s and making an impact on the worlds of fashion and art.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Renaissance man
Noun
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Cecil was indeed a polymath tastemaker of his time.—
Felicity Carter,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Besides practicing writing, Estelle’s teen years started her journey to becoming a polymath.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Aug. 2025
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His daughter mirrored his parvenue of a wife, a woman beneath him not in station but rather in intellect, someone easily affected and prone to childlike ideas.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Sep. 2025
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This survey does not measure intellect.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The first version, out October 24, will be a country record produced by Nashville wiz Jordan Lehning.—
Jonathan Bernstein,
Rolling Stone,
12 Aug. 2025
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Pedal-steel guitar and multi-instrumental wiz David Lindley was lured away to join Jackson Browne’s band in Los Angeles, where Reid soon moved after being signed by Atlantic.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Aug. 2025
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With colors ranging from purple and silvery blue to rose or creamy white, these plants can withstand cold days and nights.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
3 Sep. 2025
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Now, as a byproduct of polarization, states that are predominantly either red or blue are going their separate ways.—
Joshua P. Cohen,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Evolving risks, shifting business models, emerging technologies—especially the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)—and increasing regulatory complexity require professionals in this field to be agile lifelong learners and critical thinkers.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2025
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For thinkers like Ratti, the time for stopping or slowing climate change has passed, and the time for climate adaptation is upon us.—
Kate Wagner,
Curbed,
5 Sep. 2025
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Founded by Keith and Brooke Desserich who lost their 5-year-old daughter Elena to brain cancer, The Cure Starts Now first worked with Graeter's in 2007 to develop an ice cream flavor in honor of the couple's daughter, called Elena’s Blueberry Pie ice cream.—
Grace Tucker,
The Enquirer,
3 Sep. 2025
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The brain is surrounded by a layer of tightly joined cells, called the blood-brain barrier, that acts as a bouncer turning away any substances deemed unworthy of accessing our most precious resource.—
Matt Fuchs,
Time,
2 Sep. 2025
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Quantrill, like other prominent Confederates such as the Ku Klux Klan’s first grand wizard, Nathan Bedford Forrest, was mythologized by Confederate sympathizers.—
Quentin Corpuel,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025
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Released in 2004, the film follows Sophie, a quiet girl working in a hat shop, who finds her life thrown into turmoil when she is literally swept off her feet by a handsome but mysterious wizard named Howl.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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The always watchable Zem (Other People’s Children) is strong as an obsessive intellectual whose theories drive him to push others to the brink, while Valeria Golino (a requisite for any Italian festival film these days) shows up as the aggrieved mother of a victim.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
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The first National Conservatism conferences drew students and intellectuals who felt marginalized by the Republican Party and dreamed about taking power.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Renaissance man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Renaissance%20man. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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