Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Renaissance men
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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
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People who were gestating during the famine grew up to have smaller brains; their kidneys had fewer nephrons, which reduces the organs’ effectiveness.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
18 Oct. 2025
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Gundogan has been exposed to two of the leading brains in modern football and reads the game like few players can.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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And this was disliked by intellectuals.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Oct. 2025
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Think of it as a sleek and uncomfortable time capsule of the past half decade of #MeToo discourse, or as a character study of flawed intellectuals desperately attempting to perform their values while clinging to the facade of their respective identities.—
Kathleen Newman-Bremang,
Refinery29,
10 Oct. 2025
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Most of the letters in these boxes, however, do not come from Soviet psychic researchers, or famous thinkers like Jung.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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The modern age demands different thinkers.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Oct. 2025
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Then again, even the fictional boarding school for witches and wizards in the Harry Potter series did not have a production line like Barcelona’s academy.—
Laia Cervelló Herrero,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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They’re not confronted with wizards.—
Sara Merican,
Deadline,
10 Oct. 2025
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He’s made athletes like Daniel Gafford look like savants.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Swift reunited with the Swedish producer Max Martin and his protégé Shellback, the same long-haired studio savants responsible for co-creating some of her most iconic singles.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
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The sages imagined the world itself as a structure left open to the north, a reminder that there are always cracks through which danger, chaos, and suffering can enter.—
Barry Gelman,
Denver Post,
19 Sep. 2025
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Those nostalgic notes evoke the minty hues of the 1950s and the earthy sages that were popular in the 1970s.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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“Renaissance men.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Renaissance%20men. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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