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Adjective
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The women had been close friends while studying for their doctorates some years earlier, but Catherine has since grown resentful of Leonora’s career, and dismissive of women whose scholarly ambitions come before marital subservience.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2026 -
There has never quite been a critical or scholarly consensus about them, but Bellini, whose music is suspended somewhere between Rossini’s precise brilliance and Donizetti’s rhetorical force, can move audiences with his melodic facility.—
Arya Roshanian,
The New York Review of Books,
6 June 2026
Adjective
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Original host Dave Garroway was an erudite guide who shaped the mix of news, lifestyle and human interest stories that still define morning news programs.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
10 June 2026
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The work of the reclusive, forbiddingly erudite author turns out to be perfect easy-listening material.—
Namara Smith,
New Yorker,
10 June 2026
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Henry sees the change as an unfair burden to senior riders who are not as technologically literate and low-income residents who don’t have bank accounts to link to the phone app or a credit card.—
Dylan Lysen
June 11,
Kansas City Star,
11 June 2026
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At Saint-Gobain, Soritsch-Renier acknowledges that the workforce is often less literate from a technology perspective, as the organization is an industrial business focused on construction materials and, as such, hasn’t been called to embrace technology at the same level as other industries.—
Francesca Cassidy,
Fortune,
8 June 2026
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What made the incident even more striking was that most of Audubon Zoo’s sleepy lizards were bred in captivity, implying the reaction was an innate response instead of learned behavior.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
17 Sep. 2025
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This kind of trading is seen as a form of learned behavior, where dogs associate a specific action with a reward.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 June 2025
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An international collaboration between 17 academic and scientific institutions, The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice was nominated in a competitive category against productions from NOVA, National Geographic Documentary Films and Netflix.—
Tarini Mehta,
Sacbee.com,
9 June 2026
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For the Delfonts, who use a tape-recorder to capture this desperate plea, Leonora’s words serve as irrefutable proof that an academic career has failed to compensate for the absence of a husband and child.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2026
Adjective
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The home is located on a quarter-acre of native and cultivated gardens and houses an art studio and yurt.—
Emma Reynolds,
Robb Report,
2 Feb. 2023
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And the archive, Golia said, reflects Didion’s cultivated awareness of her self-presentation.—
Jennifer Schuessler,
New York Times,
26 Jan. 2023
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Some butter is cultured by adding lactic acid bacteria.—
Rosemary Trout,
The Conversation,
10 June 2026
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The researchers also collected and cultured airborne microbes from the mummy’s storage chamber and from the room where the remains were handled.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
8 June 2026
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For the uninitiated, author Donna Tartt is the undisputed queen of the ambient mystery with bookish flair.—
Madeline Hirsch,
InStyle,
3 June 2026
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Cepeda, a senator who participated in the Colombian government’s peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) about a decade earlier, is bookish, scripted and a bit uninspiring during campaign rallies.—
Daniel DePetris,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2026
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“Polyhistoric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polyhistoric. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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