Renaissance men

Definition of Renaissance mennext
plural of Renaissance man

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Noun
  • Private Money, Public Breakthroughs To call Saad Bhamla and his seven co-recipients polymaths is more than flattery.
    John Drake, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While the likes of Philo and Trotter have expanded upon the idea by prioritizing people whose intellects align with their brand values, Jacquemus takes it to another level.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • When some of the dogs in the aging project die, their brains are donated and examined.
    Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Our brains are cued by the daily rhythm of the Earth’s rotation and have evolved to sleep at night.
    Holly Haber, Dallas Morning News, 20 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • More than 400 intellectuals and students had demonstrated against the regime in a Capuchin monastery on the outskirts of Barcelona and were surrounded by police for two days.
    Colm Tóibín, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2026
  • As a young woman, Stanton frequently visited her cousin Gerrit Smith, a militant abolitionist and an ally of John Brown, whose house in Peterboro, New York, was a hotbed for radical intellectuals.
    Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The five-day festival includes an eclectic mix of talks from leading writers, thinkers and speakers.
    Irenie Forshaw, TheWeek, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Supporters say introductory courses had become too focused on contemporary social-justice frameworks and that the new standards restore an emphasis on classical thinkers, empirical methods and a broader range of perspectives.
    Garrett Shanley, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Ted Taylor and Freeman Dyson, two other mid-century savants of the atom, spent years at General Atomic designing a gigantic spacecraft that would weigh thousands of tons and propel itself to Mars, Saturn, and the nearby stars with nuclear explosions.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
  • His sons were lauded as 20-something savants.
    James D. Walsh, Curbed, 10 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Of all the wizards of modern AI, Amodei, the theoretical physicist who founded Anthropic, maker of Claude, is the most publicly anxious about the impact of his product on the world at large, seemingly spooked by his own predictions.
    Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Only the best of the bat-to-ball wizards can build a career in the majors.
    Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The aromatic foliage of sages (including herb species) deters aphids and Japanese beetles, while the blossoms support a host of beneficial insects.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Planted in swaths on the hillside is a mix of lavenders, plus sages and other California natives.
    Christine Lennon, Architectural Digest, 17 Feb. 2026
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“Renaissance men.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Renaissance%20men. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.

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