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Noun
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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 -
If there’s such a thing as an 18-year-old Renaissance man, Moore is that.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
28 June 2025
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Physician—and polymath—Thomas Young established his surgery in 1799 at Number 48 Welbeck Street and went on to research the mechanics of the eye, and much else.—
Carlton Reid,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Think of Da Vinci and Franklin as notable polymaths (someone learned in multiple subjects).—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 June 2025
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Batman, who relied not on superpowers but on his own intellect, was the thinking-man’s superhero.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
11 July 2025
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Peaceful nuclear energy and the manufacturing of missiles are the results of indigenous knowledge, intellect, and science, and thus they cannot be destroyed.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 July 2025
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“Polyhistor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polyhistor. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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