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Recent Examples of Renaissance man
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.
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Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 28 June 2025
Gates was celebrated as a modern-day Renaissance man whose practice incorporates sculpture, conceptual formalism, music, performance, land art and space theory to create community.
—Hadley Meares, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2025
The ‘Renaissance man,’ tireless worker, culture-builder tasked with turning Colorado around
Grading The Week: CU Buffs great Travis Hunter took about 6 seconds to win Jacksonville’s hearts
Beck entered Monday’s game hitting .264 with a team-high eight home runs.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 19 May 2025
Remembered as a real Renaissance man, a political leader known for being the country’s second prime minister and a lover of alchemy.
—Valentina Di Donato, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
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Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 28 June 2025
Gates was celebrated as a modern-day Renaissance man whose practice incorporates sculpture, conceptual formalism, music, performance, land art and space theory to create community.
—Hadley Meares, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2025
The ‘Renaissance man,’ tireless worker, culture-builder tasked with turning Colorado around
Grading The Week: CU Buffs great Travis Hunter took about 6 seconds to win Jacksonville’s hearts
Beck entered Monday’s game hitting .264 with a team-high eight home runs.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 19 May 2025
Remembered as a real Renaissance man, a political leader known for being the country’s second prime minister and a lover of alchemy.
—Valentina Di Donato, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Renaissance man
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Last night on Instagram, the polymath poet, culture worker, and song stylist announced a new literary project.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025
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Even during his glittering publishing career at i-D, W, and the American, Italian and British editions of Vogue, the fashion polymath remained a stylist and consultant — staging runway shows and even directing a film — such was his London fashion-world reknown.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Curriculums teach about the laws and governmental acts in place that withheld education and advancement from the enslaved, but skip over the intellect and radical acts Black people achieved anyway.—
Taylor Cassidy,
Time,
15 Oct. 2025
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Know that you are loved in all ways, especially for your wit, intellect, and personality above anything else.—
Lisa Stardust,
Refinery29,
14 Oct. 2025
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Loosely based on the life of ping-pong great Marty Reisman, the film stars Timothée Chalamet as the fictional Marty Mauser, a table tennis wiz coming up in 1950s New York City with the hyper-determination to become a world champion.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
8 Oct. 2025
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Rensch’s parents were pulled into the group, where the young chess wiz spent his childhood running around barefoot in a remote forest village.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
5 Oct. 2025
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Wilson styled a jumpsuit featuring varying cool tones of blue in contrast with warm, autumnal hues of red, orange and peach.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
15 Oct. 2025
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Owens could turn District 6 blue if that trend continues.—
Nick Sullivan,
Charlotte Observer,
15 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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Because the manuscript transmission was so thin, Lucretius had no direct influence on medieval thinkers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Oct. 2025
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Kennedy sought the advice of doctors after dealing with severe memory loss and brain fog, reportedly leading to a scan of his brain that showed a dark spot in the imagery.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
15 Oct. 2025
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Prior to their discoveries, it was thought that the brain was unable to change or regenerate after a certain point in early adulthood.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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Then again, even the fictional boarding school for witches and wizards in the Harry Potter series did not have a production line like Barcelona’s academy.—
Laia Cervelló Herrero,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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They’re not confronted with wizards.—
Sara Merican,
Deadline,
10 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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“Renaissance man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Renaissance%20man. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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