polyhistoric

Definition of polyhistoricnext

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for polyhistoric
Adjective
  • One scholarly paper found that the typical retiree who claims before 70 loses $182,370 in potential Social Security income.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Leslie Hairston, a former City Council colleague of Preckwinkle’s whose South Side ward abutted hers, said Preckwinkle’s scholarly disposition shouldn’t be mistaken for indifference.
    A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • The dazzlingly witty and erudite script, by Robert Kaplow, is nominated for Best Original Screenplay; Hawke, who is rightly nominated for Best Actor, delivers one of his richest and most surprising performances.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Enrigue is an erudite, charismatic raconteur—the sort who will tell you the most abject story with a wink—and his novel distills a byzantine swirl of historical events through the lives of a handful of very colorful characters.
    Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • With the help of her best friend Tatum (Rose McGowan), boyfriend Billy (Skeet Ulrich), and cine-literate nerds Randy (Jamie Kennedy) and Stu (Matthew Lillard), Sidney sets out to determine who’s behind the mask.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Mar. 2026
  • My grandmother, who was the only literate one in our family, would write strange musings.
    Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Campaigns are not academic exercises.
    Matt Klink, Oc Register, 17 Mar. 2026
  • What started as an academic experiment eventually developed into an advanced robotic system capable of achieving a world record.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 16 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • 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
  • And the archive, Golia said, reflects Didion’s cultivated awareness of her self-presentation.
    Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • The end result is a cultured information of markets that supports thoughtful techniques, reliable forecasting and knowledgeable positioning without pointless complexity.
    Ascend Agency, Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Marty is not cultured, colorful and neurotic with a penchant for Yiddish outbursts.
    David Colman, HollywoodReporter, 23 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • However bookish my ideal of it, going to Antarctica aligned with my idea of myself as tough, independent, and not old.
    Cree LeFavour, New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Thomas Harris grew up in the South as a bookish outcast, reading the works of Ernest Hemingway and Jonathan Swift.
    Costa Beavin Pappas, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2026
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“Polyhistoric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polyhistoric. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.

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