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Recent Examples of Renaissance man
At the village entrance is a Swabian Castle, built by Frederick II, a Holy Roman Emperor, who held huge sway in Southern Italy in the 13th century and was considered a Renaissance man avant la lettre, thanks to his cosmopolitanism and intellectual pursuits.
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Catherine Sabino,
Forbes.com,
31 Jan. 2026
Today, Berg is a Renaissance man for the age of wellness misinformation.
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Alexa Lee,
STAT,
27 Jan. 2026
Artist, inventor and anatomist Leonardo da Vinci was the definition of a Renaissance man — and scientists are aiming to unlock the secrets of his genius on a genetic level.
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Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
16 Jan. 2026
Jon Batiste is the definitive musical Renaissance man.
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Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
10 Oct. 2025
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Catherine Sabino,
Forbes.com,
31 Jan. 2026
Today, Berg is a Renaissance man for the age of wellness misinformation.
—
Alexa Lee,
STAT,
27 Jan. 2026
Artist, inventor and anatomist Leonardo da Vinci was the definition of a Renaissance man — and scientists are aiming to unlock the secrets of his genius on a genetic level.
—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
16 Jan. 2026
Jon Batiste is the definitive musical Renaissance man.
—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
10 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Renaissance man
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Jane Remover is a trans polymath producer and singer-songwriter with influences across rave, shoegaze, trap and beyond.
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Inspired by the German polymath Alexander von Humboldt’s travels in South America and his ensuing argument for the interdependence of all natural entities, the young Church embarked on a nearly seven-month expedition in Humboldt’s footsteps.
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Adding a little pop of electric blue instantly livens up what could otherwise be a boring outfit.
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State Auditor Rob Sand is running a competitive race to turn the governor’s mansion blue.
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Odysseus is a warrior with wit and intellect, a con man and fabulist who constantly reinvents himself.
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His immediate presence was one of sharp intellect, efficiency and modesty.
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But what was more notable was that the sandwich shop had a portal to a wizard's lair, which is where the Russo kids trained to become the only standing wizard family.
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Beasley even lit up the scoreboard consistently across the globe in China, affording him unquestioned credentials as an offensive wizard worldwide.
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Lecture topics range from anxiety, stress and depression to mindfulness and brain health.
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The blasts of noise and oregano at Kafeneion, a restaurant above a wine bar in a building across from the city’s Victorian-era Parliament House, ricocheted my brain to my one trip to Athens a dozen years earlier.
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They were refined and astute thinkers.
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While agile new companies can offer top AI thinkers massive equity upside, Hassabis’s confidence is rooted in Google’s structural advantages, including its unparalleled ecosystem of data, integrated hardware, and sheer computing power.
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Photograph by Sébastien Leban for TIME France A talent out of the ordinary, precocious beyond doubt… Kylian Mbappé has all the qualities of a sage who seems to have already lived nearly everything by the age of 27.
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Green, in soft shades from sage to pistachio, is a new neutral that adds nice brightness to a spring wardrobe.
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Photography and the secret of Frederick Douglass' power Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery and became an influential orator, writer and intellectual, was the most photographed person in America in the 19th century.
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Beginning in the 1870s, atheism and indifference to religion became popular, especially among younger intellectuals.
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“Renaissance man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Renaissance%20man. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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