savants

plural of savant

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Recent Examples of savants He’s made athletes like Daniel Gafford look like savants. Fred Katz, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025 Swift reunited with the Swedish producer Max Martin and his protégé Shellback, the same long-haired studio savants responsible for co-creating some of her most iconic singles. Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025 Ten years into the reign of the Dungeons & Dragons troupe turned multimedia savants, Critical Role isn’t just content with the start of their biggest campaign, launching their own streaming service, or even working on video games — there’s always room for more. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025 Math is commonly portrayed as something only prodigies and savants can do. Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for savants
Noun
  • Most legal scholars interpret this to mean that the president’s duty is to spend the money Congress appropriates, and that the president does not have the power to withhold funds.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Yet Trump’s mercurial nature has given other presidential scholars, who cited the president’s six-month journey to even suggest that Vance and Rubio were in the running to succeed him, some hesitancy.
    Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The sages imagined the world itself as a structure left open to the north, a reminder that there are always cracks through which danger, chaos, and suffering can enter.
    Barry Gelman, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Those nostalgic notes evoke the minty hues of the 1950s and the earthy sages that were popular in the 1970s.
    R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025

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“Savants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/savants. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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