polyglot

Example Sentences

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Their answer was to promote a polyglot society that straddled the line between Western and Muslim sensibilities, while promising wealth, efficiency and stability.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Having gained a reputation for punchy phrases, the polyglot politician appears unlikely to shy away from the fight.

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

It’s also important in a polyglot state like California that a poll is not conducted solely in English.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025

Historians say the deprivation contributed to the growing ethnic tensions of the polyglot state, which led to the Bosnian War in the 1990s.

From Salon • Aug. 19, 2025

Along the way, someone substituted the Latin ending pi for the Greek podes and came up with the polyglot octopi.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner