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Recent Examples of erudite The Barbizon quickly became a magnet for the ambitious, glamorous, and erudite—a young Joan Didion once called it home, as did Cybill Shepherd—who came to the Big Apple to pursue their dreams. Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 19 June 2025 The choice of the erudite writer and talk show host said so much about who Apple saw as its target audience. Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 June 2025 Her transcripts of their conversations can read like early drafts of movie dialogue between two erudite thinkers, untangling the convoluted knots of difficult family histories. Evelyn McDonnell 5, Literary Hub, 5 June 2025 Dissatisfied with the quality of the day’s commercial recordings, Paul, who’d worked with pop stars including Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, and was a guitar virtuoso and bandleader, endeavored to push the practice forward — to make recording a kind of erudite art form. Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for erudite
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Adjective
  • The tale Hero mostly tells is one of three beautiful sisters, the daughters of a merchant, who form a secret society of literate women who collect and record stories.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Add a deal literate accountant who can tie financials to the story.
    Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Borrowing from the likes of Luchino Visconti with his eye for exquisite period detail, the great Stanley Kubrick turned to 18th-century literary adaptation in his epic picaresque of a young cad named Barry Lyndon.
    Christina Newland, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • There are no sections that go entirely unloved by our staff, but some favorites include literary fiction, cookbooks, sci fi and fantasy and all things kids' books.
    American Booksellers Association, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The Study Has Some Limitations People in the study tended to be healthier and more educated, Guo says, which could potentially skew the findings.
    Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Preseason polls are, at best, educated guesses, and there are perennial calls to abolish them altogether.
    Giovanni Malloy, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • As astronomy embraced mathematics and observation during the Scientific Revolution, astrology increasingly lost its scholarly legitimacy and was pushed to the margins.
    Christopher P. Scheitle, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Joshi says teachers also tend to be a vocal crowd that isn’t shy about sharing their scholarly opinions.
    John Kell, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Butler and Malkovich turn bullying into hambone art, and Isaac magnetizes our sympathy as the daredevil but still relatively civilized Nick, who’s caught in the middle of all this.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But the needs of civilized society have a way of intruding.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025

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“Erudite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/erudite. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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