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Recent Examples of Renaissance man
If there’s such a thing as an 18-year-old Renaissance man, Moore is that.
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Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 28 June 2025
Lalo is a true Renaissance man: a performer at the piano, a painter with notes, a conductor and composer who has scored some of the most memorable films of the past half-century.
—Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 28 June 2025
Gates was celebrated as a modern-day Renaissance man whose practice incorporates sculpture, conceptual formalism, music, performance, land art and space theory to create community.
—Hadley Meares, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2025
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.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 19 May 2025
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Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 28 June 2025
Lalo is a true Renaissance man: a performer at the piano, a painter with notes, a conductor and composer who has scored some of the most memorable films of the past half-century.
—Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 28 June 2025
Gates was celebrated as a modern-day Renaissance man whose practice incorporates sculpture, conceptual formalism, music, performance, land art and space theory to create community.
—Hadley Meares, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2025
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.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Renaissance man
Noun
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Joseph, who designs educational games and co-founded the Games for Change Festival, is a polymath himself.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2025
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One of the world’s first calculators, devised in 1642 by the French polymath Blaise Pascal, was pulled from auction — at least for now.—
Brendan Ruberry,
semafor.com,
20 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The men in blue looked at nothing and wrote their stories in notepads.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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On the map, everything north of Tennessee was blanketed in purples and pinks and blues, signalling heavy snow, while everything south was bone white—meaning no snow, not even an inch.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
28 Jan. 2026
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This immersion trained his instinct more than his intellect.—
Desjah Altvater,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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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
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The family rocked a Harry Potter group costume on Halloween in 2021, which saw Biel dressed as Professor McGonagall, Timberlake as Dumbledore, Silas as Potter and baby Phineas as Hedwig, the young wizard's pet owl.—
Andrea Wurzburger,
PEOPLE,
31 Jan. 2026
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Only the best of the bat-to-ball wizards can build a career in the majors.—
Grant Brisbee,
New York Times,
27 Jan. 2026
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Without being trained on neural data, the model produced a peculiar signal — one that was later discovered in actual brain activity.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
29 Jan. 2026
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In those participants, the disease was not associated with any changes in brain size or evidence of damage.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Leaders & Idea-Makers Educators, executives, creators, founders, analysts, and public thinkers who shape conversations and influence decisions.—
Daphne Koller,
Big Think,
29 Jan. 2026
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Dylan Black, a SDA freshman who took the pilot course this year, said the class allowed students to learn more about each other and also become better debaters and thinkers.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Jan. 2026
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Its relaxing, luxurious scent comes from its blend of rosemary, sage, lavender, and eucalyptus.—
Melony Forcier,
InStyle,
30 Jan. 2026
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Quartzite is repeatedly mentioned by designers as the go-to in organic shades like sage, eucalyptus, and olive.—
Cori Sears,
The Spruce,
30 Jan. 2026
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The film traces Rushdie’s life and career — starting with his childhood in India — deftly blending archival material, interviews, animation, images and film clips to reveal a prickly intellectual mellowed by time and experience.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Jan. 2026
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The companies made deals with whichever military despot was in power in Caracas, angering young intellectuals such as Rómulo Betancourt, who harbored dreams of a democratic Venezuela.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Renaissance man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Renaissance%20man. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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