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Recent Examples of Synonyms for polyhistors
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Private Money, Public Breakthroughs To call Saad Bhamla and his seven co-recipients polymaths is more than flattery.—
John Drake,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Evolutionary thinkers have long argued that humans evolved to notice snakes, which might explain why these creatures slither into a vast number of mythologies, from Quetzalcoatl in Mexico and Damballa in West Africa to celestial dragons in China.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Obsess Over Concept-to-Execution Speed – The market punishes slow thinkers.—
Erik Huberman,
Rolling Stone,
10 Oct. 2025
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People who were gestating during the famine grew up to have smaller brains; their kidneys had fewer nephrons, which reduces the organs’ effectiveness.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
18 Oct. 2025
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Gundogan has been exposed to two of the leading brains in modern football and reads the game like few players can.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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And this was disliked by intellectuals.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Oct. 2025
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Think of it as a sleek and uncomfortable time capsule of the past half decade of #MeToo discourse, or as a character study of flawed intellectuals desperately attempting to perform their values while clinging to the facade of their respective identities.—
Kathleen Newman-Bremang,
Refinery29,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Polyhistors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polyhistors. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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