Renaissance men

plural of Renaissance man

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Noun
  • Leonardo was one of history’s greatest polymaths, filling notebooks with designs across a range of disciplines, including flying machines that wouldn't be realized for centuries.
    ABC News, ABC News, 9 June 2026
  • 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
  • Women are compelled to suppress their desires, intellects, and emotions in Gilead.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Even professionals in their prime walked away rather than risk compromising their brains.
    Tim Graham, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • There’s a deeper flux and connectivity between the different parts of our brains, the different parts our personalities and our creativity.
    Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • Founded by Thiel and Auren Hoffman, the invite-only network of CEOs, politicians and intellectuals meets to have small, moderated conversations in confidentiality about the future of tech, according to Axios, which reported the forum’s plans for a DC-area campus last year.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 18 June 2026
  • Black intellectuals such as Ralph Ellison knew this, too, despite living at a time when the lynchings of Black people were still a regular feature of American life.
    Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • Classical thinkers used it to describe the capacity to feel a powerful impulse and choose not to act on it.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • Tradition of separation The idea of separate spheres of spiritual and secular functions and authority was advanced by religious and secular thinkers to benefit both religion and the state.
    Steven K. Green, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • The treasure trove, which includes exclusive pieces from Hermès, Louis Vuitton, and more, has sent style savants on the internet into a frenzy.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 30 June 2026
  • Jittery courtside kibbitzers, first-time-longtimers, and Vegas savants are guarded in their evaluation of the Knicks’ chances.
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 30 May 2026
Noun
  • After climbing the Azkaban Escape Tower to the top, repel-style, young wizards-in-training, Clark and Emily Friscia, were ready to go home.
    Greg Harutunian, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
  • And two other high-flying AI wizards — Anthropic and OpenAI — are working on their own mega offerings.
    Evan Clark, Footwear News, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Giant agaves, lomandra, aeoniums, aloes, blue grasses and sages covered the slope from the house to the pool.
    Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2026
  • With encouragement from Kincaid, Lee, 49, began by planting small sages that would grow quickly and help prevent erosion, since water, mulch and rain often ran down the hillside to the sidewalk.
    Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
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