as in scholar
a person of deep wisdom or learning
a savant in the field of medical ethics
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Recent Examples of savant
It’s been a quarter century since the mostly Canadian supergroup New Pornographers sprang from the florid imagination of Carl Newman, a pop savant with an angel’s voice and switchblade wit.
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Elizabeth Nelson, Pitchfork, 8 Apr. 2026
After purchasing his first HG Timepiece hourglass, made by storied designer Marc Newson, back in 2020, the watch savant and owner of Wind Vintage (and one of our Masters of Luxury) remained enamored with the piece for years.
—Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2026
But one of California’s leading political savants, Paul Mitchell, has developed a helpful online tool to suss out the possibilities.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2026
Ted Taylor and Freeman Dyson, two other mid-century savants of the atom, spent years at General Atomic designing a gigantic spacecraft that would weigh thousands of tons and propel itself to Mars, Saturn, and the nearby stars with nuclear explosions.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
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Elizabeth Nelson, Pitchfork, 8 Apr. 2026
After purchasing his first HG Timepiece hourglass, made by storied designer Marc Newson, back in 2020, the watch savant and owner of Wind Vintage (and one of our Masters of Luxury) remained enamored with the piece for years.
—Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2026
But one of California’s leading political savants, Paul Mitchell, has developed a helpful online tool to suss out the possibilities.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2026
Ted Taylor and Freeman Dyson, two other mid-century savants of the atom, spent years at General Atomic designing a gigantic spacecraft that would weigh thousands of tons and propel itself to Mars, Saturn, and the nearby stars with nuclear explosions.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for savant
scholar
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Van Bendegem, who would become a leading scholar on ultrafinitist logic, later addressed these concerns by considering a geometry in which a line or curve has width and is both finite and finitely divisible.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 Apr. 2026
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Ted Kaptchuk, an acupuncturist and leading scholar of the placebo effect, has described this phenomenon in detail.—
Hannah Kerman,
STAT,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Savant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/savant. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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